Disabled student advocacy to enhance accessibility and disability inclusion in one School of Social Work
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Shaila Kumbhare; Jessica Evans; Sarah Mantini; Alise de Bie
- Source
- Critical and Radical Social Work. 9:311-320
- Subject
- Medical education
Sociology and Political Science
Inclusion (disability rights)
Social work
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY
Sociology
- Language
- ISSN
- 2049-8675
2049-8608
In this article, current and former social work students with disabilities consider how the student Disability Action Group has facilitated greater accessibility and disability inclusion in our Canadian university’s School of Social Work. After reviewing the relative absence of disabled student voices in the published literature on disability/accessibility advocacy initiatives in Canadian social work education, we reflect on the work of the Disability Action Group and the successes and challenges we have faced. We encourage other disabled social work students to collectively advocate for their learning needs and call on faculty and staff to better support us in enhancing accessibility and documenting and sharing student efforts to do so.