PRISCILLA intends to contribute to equip young men and women with intellectual disabilities with skills to protect themselves from the risk of sexual cyberbullying while exploiting as much as possible the benefits that ICT and social media can provide them.

It is a developmental disability characterized by mild to profound limitations in cognitive function (e.g., learning, problem solving, reasoning, planning) and in adaptive behavior, impairing one’s ability to acquire skills typical for one’s age group as a child or necessary for one’s later independent functioning as an adult. (Source: APA)

The target groups of PRISCILLA are: young people (18-30) with intellectual disabilities, their parents / informal carers and professionals working with them in social and health care services.

(A) a training programme for young people with intellectual disabilities based on active learning techniques, role-playing, embodiment, visual aids and other adapted training methodologies

(B) a blended-learning course for youth workers working with persons with intellectual disabilities aimed to provide them the skills and competences to support their users in safely and responsibly using digital tools for social interaction and to react in case abuse or harassment are revealed

(C) a digital awareness raising programme targeting parents of young people with intellectual disabilities on how to balance risks and benefits of ICT

(D) Dissemination tools to mainstream project results and to raise awareness about the risks to which young persons with intellectual disabilities are exposed while using the web.