Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues presents insightful strategies from leading experts that address the gaps between social work and individuals with disabilities, and offers different perspectives on how to integrate practice with social justice, accessibility to services, and human rights.

About the Contributors. Preface: Disability and Social Work Education, Carol B. Cohen. Acknowledgments. An Approach to Learning About Social Work with People with Disabilities, Nancy L. Mary. Everything You Never Wanted to Know Special Education¿ and Were Afraid to Ask (IDEA), Sandra Altshuler. MiCASSA¿My Home, Reiko Hayashi. Resources Ancillary Services and Classroom Instruction: Thoughts of a Deaf-Blind Social Work Student and Her Teacher, Teresa V. Mason and Ashleigh Smith. An Overview of and Comments on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), John T. Pardeck and Jean A. Pardeck. Planned Change in the Disability Community, Randall R. Myers. Integrating a Family-Centered Approach into Social Work Practice with Families of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities, Diana Strock-Lynskey and Diane W. Keller. Adjustment to Disability, Carol B. Cohen and Donna Napolitano. The Impact of Sight Loss in Social Work Practice, Cathy Orzolek-Kronner. Disability and Spirituality in Social Work Practice, Jane Hurst. The Implications of Disability Protests for Social Work Practice, Sharon N. Barnartt. Applications of a Capability Approach to Disability and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in Social Work Practice, Patricia Welch Saleeby. Research Methods with Disabled Populations, Elizabeth Eckhardt and Jeane Anastas. Index. Reference Notes.