The present postgraduate thesis analyses the importance of sexual education of children having disabilities and essential related features with regard to the fast process of disabled people’s integration into the general society, paying special attention to integration of disabled children into the educational system. The work also examines peculiarities of children’s sexual education in families and parent roles in the sexual education process. The aim of the work is to disclose parent attitudes towards sexual education of children having disabilities. Parent attitudes towards disabled children’s sexual education have been analysed with regard to several basic evaluation criteria: parent attitudes towards sexual education in general, problems related to disabled children’s sexual education and disclosure of parent opinions on organising sexual education. The following methods have been used in the research work: analysis of educational, psychological and other scientific literary sources related to the topic analysed, questionnaire-based surveying of parents, statistical analysis of the empirical data obtained (calculation of absolute and percentile (relative) frequencies using the SPSS PC/10.0 software) and individual conversations with parents helpful in clarification of questionnaire survey data. The research involved 101 parents having children with disabilities including 85 women (84.2 %) and 16 men (15.8 %) of different ages and educational backgrounds. The research... [to full text]