Special Girls' Business™

Special Girls’ Business™ is a puberty resource written for girls with special needs, including:

• Intellectual disability
• Physical disability
• Communication disorder and
• Autism

Special Girls' Business™ takes a girl and her carer step by step through the process of managing periods.
Information is presented simply with clear colourful pictures and brief simple text.

This sex education book helps girls with special needs and the important adults in their lives to manage this stage of life with confidence. It contains step by step illustrations to teach girls how to manage their period, including the use and disposal of pads. This puberty book provides practical hints for parents, teachers and carers, with special hints for Dads.

The book is very suited to be used by schools and residential facilities as a sex education and puberty resource.

There are two other disability puberty books in the series.

Puberty and Special Girls™ contains additional general information about puberty. It provides sexuality education about relationships.

Special Boys' Business™ is a useful puberty resource to use with girls so that they understand the changes that boys experience at puberty.

Endorsements

“Dear Fay, Heather and Rose, Just a short note to thank you for your great book “Special Girls’ Business’. Last year when our adopted daughter, a gorgeous spunky girl with Down Syndrome, started to develop I asked her school if they had anything for me to read to prepare her for her periods. They didn’t. So I remembered Family Planning and rang them, they were so helpful and suggested your book. I ordered it, and it was perfect! It started off with a girl who was 10 and she was. She wanted me to read it to her every night. It became her favourite bedtime story. Just before her 11th birthday she got her periods, and thanks to your outstanding book she was totally prepared. Her period bag had been in her school bag for 5 months, and she was so capable and informed, her teachers were most impressed. I am so proud of her, thanks to your guys. Well done".
A mum

“We found Special Girls’ Business™ an appropriate and sensitive guide for adolescent girls with special needs. While girls with physical disabilities may always require help from a carer for period management, this book is an easily understood and clear guide for both the girls and their carers".
Tracy Larsen, Manager School Services, Yooralla Society of Victoria.
Viv Kostoglou, Team Leader and Physiotherapist, Belmore School.