Demands from the communication

Given the difficulty of communication between young people and society, the family is planned as a savior, to meet the communication needs. The family develops a tolerance with respect to the language of the young, not striving to correct his language, allowing to keep their language over the failure of his life.

Since the communication, the most common application is presented to teach the young man with Down syndrome, social skills that facilitate communication with society. Every young person needs to be accepted by others. This event is possible when the young listen to the other and is heard on the other. In communication, the couple seeks to interact with others to achieve such recognition.

In the case of young man with Down syndrome, there are some factors that may hinder their communication such as the lack of conversational rules, an extensive and spoke little bit abstract, a lack of experience, the difficulty of some young people with Down to sharing their interests and the difficulty of the young to follow instructions.

Demands from family

Most young people with Down syndrome developed a strong bond with their parents due to their difficulty in meeting their needs, but if it keeps this relationship to reach youth, the link will become dependent.

The demands on the growth and maturity of young people with Down parents awaken feelings of insecurity, emotional instability, anxiety and fear for not having the knowledge and resources to tackle the stage in which their children go through.

Many parents assume that their children do not have the same level of development of other young people, preventing them from expressing their feelings and thoughts in front of the peer group composed of young people in general, ignoring this need as a vital part in its development process, moreover, that parents of youths with Down syndrome to meet the needs of children regardless of their fear of losing control over them, preventing them from interacting with their surroundings for fear of damage they may cause relationships with others, using isolation as a form of social protection for their children.


Lawsuits around sexuality

The most common application is related to the expanding knowledge about
of sexuality in young people with Down syndrome in order to accept their status as human beings sexed compared to his family and society.

Many young people with Down syndrome have no sex education at a rate of an initial belief that people with declared Down as asexual beings. There are some parents who think it is a mistake to talk about sexuality to their children with Down syndrome, as known to give them items that they would wake her sexuality. As a result of this denial of their sexuality and appropriate sexual education, young people begin to deliver inappropriate sexual behavior.

With respect to these inappropriate behaviors, they explain that they have been wrongly attributed to their cognitive deficit, when the cause is lack of knowledge as a product of inadequate sex education.

Young people with Down syndrome need to be oriented like their parents about issues related to biological, psychological and social around sexuality.

The changes experienced by humans throughout their life require an understanding of concepts like sexual identity, sexual role, gender identity, genitalia, masturbation, and reproduction in the development bio-psycho-social subjects.

Author: Á. Avila, G. Gacharná, J. Osorio, A. Sandoval
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