Sex-ed app developed for deaf youths

Mahidol University has launched the “Compulsory Sexuality Education (CSE) for Deaf” mobile app for people with hearing impairments.

The target market is youths aged 10 years old and above. The content is created by Asst Prof Kanokwan Tharawan, lecturer at the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University. With a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, she has taught sexuality education for more than 20 years.

“There is a lot of information on sexuality that anyone can access on the internet or in a classroom but they cannot be truly understood by students who are deaf,” she told the Bangkok Post.

Deaf youths who do not attend school do not know sign language. They do not know where and how to acquire sex education to…