Summary

This is a book to help women with intellectual disability learn more about their health. It also provides a list of resources on disability for women with intellectual disability, their family members, carers or health care professionals. It can be used as a teaching tool to help women with intellectual disability learn about their health.

Sections

You can download the entire book or each chapter separately:

• Acknowledgements and contents
• Asking questions about you
• Being healthy and happy
• Healthy eating
• Feeling sad and feeling happy
• Puberty
• Having your periods
• Growing up
• Close relationships and sex
• Safer sex
• Deciding to become a parent
• Being pregnant
• Having a Pap test
• Breast health
• Menopause
• Getting older
• Grief and loss
• Other helpful resources

Translations

• Being a Healthy Woman (Arabic)
• Being a Healthy Woman (Dinka)
• Being a Healthy Woman (Chinese Traditional)
• Being a Healthy Woman (English)
• Being a Healthy Woman (Korean)
• Being a Healthy Woman (Vietnamese)