Author's Name:	R.Jamuna & Dr.Sambath Rani
Subject Area:	Other
Subject	Other
Section	Research Paper

Intellectual disability, Self protection skills, Abuse.

Women with Intellectual Disabilities have a wide range of abilities and disabilities. Mostly they have difficulties in learning and comprehension when compared to the normal. Most of these women were under protected life than adolescents do without disabilities. Overprotection often heightens the risk of abuse, lack of knowledge, habitual over compliance, limited assertiveness and undifferentiated trusting were the frequent byproducts of this protected lifestyle. In order to make women to come out of such abuses and to illuminate their lives with safety and dignity, they should learn self protection skills. So that they can develop a safety network of trusted adults to talk to , increased communication skills to talk about bodies, an understanding of healthy, respectful relationship, learning to identify and express their own personal boundaries, knowledge to identify abusive situations/ less likely to experience physical or sexual abuse.