SNAPSHOT: Dicing with Sex
This programme contains some adult sexual content and discussion, only watch if you are happy to do so.
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New Television Documentary
The Remark team reveal the shocking state of sex education awareness in young Deaf people. Nadia Nadarajah explores some of the causes of Britain’s terrible teen pregnancy rates and some of the solutions that might equip our teenagers with the knowledge they need.
The UK has some of the worst rates of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe. Snapshot explores some of the reasons behind Britain’s teenage pregnancy and STI epidemic. Official statistics show that one in seventeen teenagers will fall pregnant and a recent individual study suggests the figure may be as high as one in eight. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STIs) are on the increase in young people and the contraction of some diseases such as Chalamydia have doubled in the last decade.
Our interviews reveal that deaf teenagers just aren’t getting the message about safe sex and are taking risks. Could the problem start with access to sex education at school? Or is it because there are inadequate resources being aimed at deaf teens, or is it that teenagers are a hard audience to please and the information isn’t being delivered in the right way? Snapshot aims to get closer to the answers and road tests its very own Sex Education game which you can download for free below.
The most helpful site for deaf youngsters that we found was this one – with information in sign-language on a range of relevant topics – check out their factsheets: http://sdya.org.uk/factsheets/
Deafax runs workshops for Teachers to help them deliver sex education to deaf youngsters in an accessible way: www.deafax.org
Download the Snapshot Game material here
Download the Snapshot Game material below:
Instructions to put the game together:
- Print all four quarters of the board plan and glue to an A2 board
- Find playing counters for the number of students playing and two dice.
- Print the game cards, cut them up and place in three piles under each topic – ‘Sextionary’, ‘Situations’ and ‘General Knowledge’.
Rules of the Game:
Each person throws the dice in turn. The aim is to get round the board answering questions correctly as you go. You can play for points against the clock or else the first person who gets all the way round the board 5 times wins.
This programme contains some adult sexual content and discussion. Only watch if you are happy to do so.
