Title
Knowledge, tasks and strategies for teaching about persons with disabilities: Implications for social work education
Abstract
Persons with disabilities are a distinct and insular minority group within the United States. Given the fact that social workers offer critical social services to this group, it is important for social work programs to offer meaningful curriculum content on persons with disabilities. This article presents key issues that social work educators should find useful for teaching about persons with disabilities. Specifically, a discussion is offered on the disability civil rights movement, the culture of disability, models for defining disability, knowledge areas on disability issues, teaching tasks and strategies for focusing on persons with disabilities. © 2002, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
Department(s)
School of Social Work
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1300/J198v01n02_04
Keywords
Advocacy, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Civil rights for persons with disabilities, Disability culture, Medical model, Minority model, Moral model, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Teaching tasks
Publication Date
9-1-2002
Recommended Citation
Pardeck, John T. "Knowledge, tasks and strategies for teaching about persons with disabilities: implications for social work education." Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation 1, no. 2 (2002): 53-72.
Journal Title
Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation
