Periods: a Practical Guide

A training pack to provide women who have a learning disability with a practical visual guide to sanitary protection during their period

Periods: a Practical Guide is an attractive book with large, clear text and full-colour illustrations and photographs, that tell what a period is, show different types of pads, and guide women with a learning disability to change a pad, step-by-step. The accompanying CD contains the book in pdf format.

Periods: a Practical Guide is a great resource for parents, caregivers, educators and health professionals to use with women who have a learning disability. Attached to the back cover, is a plastic envelope with a copy of I Change My Pad, a little book (7.5 x 10.5cm) that a woman can keep in her bag, to remind her how to change her pad. Extra copies of I Change My Pad can be purchased separately from Healthrites bookshop. Also available  I Change My Pad.

Contents:  Section 1. All About Pads  Section 2. Putting on a Pad  Section 3. Changing a Pad  Section 4. What to Do if Your Pad Leaks