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Interactive Workshop

Teaching Methods and Learning Styles

Action Steps Toward Disability Justice and Dismantling Ableism in Social Work Education

Despite social work's commitment to social justice, ableism remains rampant among social work programs. Basic access is not enough; rather, we must work towards active inclusion, affirmation, and disability justice in order to live our values. This workshop offers action steps to move social work education forward.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
  1. Identify at least 3 ways social work education can be more accessible
  2. Assess their own program(s) for ways universal design for learning can be more effectively integrated
  3. Propose how they will work towards deeper disability inclusion, accessibility, and disability justice in social work education, now, next, and in the future.