Assistant Professor Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
Social work education rarely addresses disability and sexuality, leaving future practitioners unprepared to support service users’ sexual well-being. This presentation examines a co-teaching initiative with a disabled service user, highlighting strategies for integrating lived experience, dismantling ableism, and ensuring that disabled individuals’ contributions shape social work pedagogy on sexual health.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
Upon completion, the participant will be able to describe the role of social work in supporting disabled individuals’ sexual well-being and recognize how ableism shapes social work education and practice.
Upon completion, the participant will be able to evaluate co-teaching with disabled service users as a strategy for embedding disability justice and anti-ableist pedagogy in social work curricula.
Upon completion, the participant will be able to identify strategies for authentically integrating service users’ voices in social work education, including course design methods for engaging disabled individuals in sexual health education.
