Consent Capacity Resource List

Updated:  03/23/21

Articles

1. Article and Checklist on Informed Consent in Adults with Developmental Disabilities, 2011 Surrey Place Centre.
2. Article on Understand Legal Capacity and Ethics, Practice Guide, National Center on Law and Elder Rights.
3. Article, Healthcare for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, a Toolkit for Primary Care Providers.
4. Article, Healthcare Treatment Decision Making Guidelines for Adults with Developmental Disabilities.
5. Article, Discussing and Assessing Sexual Consent Capacity.
6. Article, Martin Linden, Assessment of Sexual Consent Capacity

Tools

7. YAI, a disability organization in New York that assesses for consent capacity.
8. Sample Assessment Tool, Heritage Centers.
9. Talk-SC: Tool for the Assessment of Levels of Knowledge - Sexuality and Consent
10. ASK: Assessment of Sexual Knowledge Test Booklet  Test booklet only. Not the accompanying pictures. This test is no longer available for purchase and the test booklet lives on in the internet.
11. GSQ: General Sexual Knowledge Questionnaire
12. SSKAT-R: Social Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Test - Revised
13. Article, Anne Kramers-Olen, Quantitative Assessment of Sexual Knowledge and Consent Capacity in People with Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disability