Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work
Memorial University
Dr. Laura Pacheco (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Memorial University and an Adjunct Professor at the McGill School of Social Work at McGill University. Laura is on executive committee of the special interest on Parents and Parenting with an Intellectual Disability at IASSIDD and is the co-convener of the Critical Disability Studies Research Knowledge Exchange at Memorial University. She has lived experience with disability and has over a decade of community, praxis and research experience in the field of parents and parenting with intellectual disabilities. For over a decade, Laura co-ordinated a best-practice and accredited service for parents with intellectual disability in Montreal. Laura’s research interests are around reproductive justice and mothering with a disability, evidence-based and social just approaches to health and social services to parents with intellectual disability with intersecting identities, disability justice and inclusion, structural and intimate partner violence against women with disabilities, disability justice and resistance, aging and neurodiversity, critically reflective practice, and community engagement.
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