Sexuality education of children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Children with Disabilities.

Policies that include children with developmental disabilities in community life increase their opportunities but also create new challenges and introduce certain risks. When high school classmates of a teenaged girl with mild mental retardation were convicted of sexually abusing her, a prominent advocate for people with disabilities noted, “The need to be loved can be a trap for the most capable. For the least capable, it can be an invitation to disaster.”