Personal, Social and Health Education for Young People with Learning Disabilities
through music and song
Songs by musician and registered nurse
The songs you can hear on this website are designed to help a person with a learning disability learn about personal, social and health education and sexual health.
The songs are appropriate for a range of ages – each song has its age-relevance.
Click on a menu item to the left to hear samples of the songs. To buy the CD and activities book for educators, please click on the Songs for Your Body title at the head of this page.
This is a sample of the full song on the CD.
The song was thoroughly discussed
by nursing teams at Cervical
Screening Wales and in the Flintshire
area before we agreed to the final
composition. It has turned out to be a
popular song with professionals and
women with learning disabilities. The
words follow closely the information
given in a smear test information pack
developed by Heather Ramessur-
Marsden, Linda Hughes, Penny
Tomlinson and Alison Corfield.
The song is sung from a nurse’s
perspective and by a woman. The
words are deliberately direct and
explicit in order to make clear what
will happen and why it is important to
have the test.
The song is probably best used at the
end of a session on smear tests and
cervical cancer.
See the articles about Edwin and his work with the Songs For Your Body project in Nursing Standard, July 1–9 2009 (Volume 23 No. 43 pages 22–23). And in Learning Disability Practice, July 2009 (Volume 12 No. 6 pages 23–25).
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