By following accessible graphic design guidelines, web accessibility guidelines, as well as Plain Language and Easy Read principles, this resource provides its teens with IDDs with comprehensive overviews on puberty and sexual health. Growing UP: Understanding Puberty is meant to empower its target audience with accessible health knowledge as they physically and emotionally transition to adulthood.

Users can access this resource on a tablet or a desktop device, and can interact with content via tapping, pointing-and-clicking with their cursor, and scrolling. Through straightforward content presentation, consistent page layouts, and simple digital interactions, users can navigate this resource with ease and with reduced potential for content overload. The resource’s simplified, cartoon-style illustrations were deigned to appeal to members of the target audience while making the topics of puberty and sexual health more approachable. 

The digital format of this resource has the potential to reach a wide audience. It can be quickly accessible to those with an internet connection, be rapidly updated, and can incorporate further dynamic interactive elements and multimedia integrations. This new resource in development presents accessibility and design improvements on previous sexual health and puberty resources for people with IDDs. 

Process work to come.