Peer counselling approaches in sexuality education for, by and with people with Learning Difficulties in Germany

我建议的研究项目将汇集三个很少以这种方式探索的研究领域：学习困难的人，性教育和同伴辅导。这将解决为有学习困难的成年人提供高质量和全面的性教育的需求，这一需求尚未实现（Gougeon，2009年; Frawley和Bigby，2014年）。也就是说，“全面的性教育必须是系统的、具体的、同伴教育的，因此具有包容性”（Gougeon，2009年，第283页）。解决这一问题的一个办法是让有学习困难的人作为同伴辅导员参与性教育。在德国和联合王国，对有学习困难的个人的性教育被接受为正规学校课程的一部分。由于个人的性取向是在一生中不断发展的，因此，教育和辅导在整个成年期都同样重要。在这项建议中，朋辈辅导是指由有学习困难的人士为有学习困难的人士提供辅导。尽管德语和英语文献普遍认为同伴教育是有用和必要的，但对学习困难者、由学习困难者和与学习困难者一起进行的性教育的实施和研究很少。由于这一领域的研究仍然不足，本研究项目旨在通过调查德国同龄人辅导员在性教育方面的经验和观点以及这些服务的参与者，促进这一领域的进一步发展。

My proposed research project will bring together three fields of research which are rarely explored in this way: People with learning difficulties, sexuality education and peer counselling. This will address the need for the provision of high quality and comprehensive sexuality education for, by, and with adult people with learning difficulties which is still not achieved (Gougeon, 2009; Frawley and Bigby, 2014). That is 'comprehensive sexuality education needs to be systematic, concrete, peer-taught and thus inclusive' (Gougeon, 2009, p. 283). One way to address this claim is the involvement of people with learning difficulties as peer counsellors in sexuality education. In Germany as well as in the UK, sexuality education for individuals with learning difficulties is accepted as part of the formal school curriculum. As the individual's sexuality constantly develops across the whole life span education and counselling is equally important throughout adulthood.In this proposal the term peer counselling refers to the counselling by people with learning difficulties for people with learning difficulties. Although peer approaches in general are widely acknowledged as useful and necessary in both German- and English-speaking literature, there is little implementation in and research on sexuality education for, by and with people with learning difficulties. Since this field remains under-researched this research project aims to contribute its further development by investigating the experiences and perspectives of peer counsellors in sexuality education and attendees of these services in Germany.