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A 3 page paper reviewing a study titled "Sexual risk
behaviors of young adults with LD and the need for HIV/AIDS education" and published in the Nov/Dec 2000 edition of Remedial and Special Education.
This paper outlines the study and its intentions. The conclusion is presented that the study's author, Wanda J. Blanchett, included too many
variables for useful conclusions to be obtained from her results. No additional sources are listed.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPaids4.rtf
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In an article titled "Sexual risk behaviors of young adults with LD and the need for HIV/AIDS education" author Wanda J. Blanchett explores the need to "develop, implement, and evaluate
comprehensive education for students with disabilities". Given the fact that AIDS has recently been classified as one of the leading causes of death for those between fifteen and twenty-four
year of age, Blanchett (2000) declares that information about AIDS should be an integral component of that education. Blanchett (2002) contends that of the 600,000 cases of AIDS reported
by 1998, 120,000 were young adults. Blanchett (2002, pg. 336) suggests that while young adults are peripherally aware of HIV/AIDS:
"their knowledge in this area is global in nature and does not explicitly illuminate the relationship between modes of transmission and their own high-risk
behaviors" Little is known about how Learning Disabled students consider HIV/AIDS. The literature largely ignores
this subgroups of young adults in fact. Those studies that do include this segment of the population observe that learning disabled students have numerous misconceptions about how HIV is
transmitted (Blanchett, 2002). Blanchett (2002) attempts to provide more details about these misperceptions. In a study involving 88 learning disabled students Blanchett (2002) explores the high school experiences
of those students that might make them more susceptible to contracting HIV. Blanchetts study is interesting yet it has several glaring
problems in regard to the manner in which subjects were chosen, the wide age range and geographic region that they represented, their varied racial and socioeconomic background, and the manner
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