#SayTheWord : is disability included in diversity training for social work educators? / by Carrie Elizabeth Blakesley Snyder.

Students with disabilities are enrolling in institutions of higher education, and in the human services fields, at increasing rates. Not only are social work educators expected to effectively teach disabled students, but under the diversity mandates of the EPAS, they are also expected to include disability in their curricula. The phenomenological study explored the experiences of social work educators in higher education settings and the diversity trainings received at their institutions to determine how inclusive these trainings were of disability. This investigation sought to develop an understanding of how the social work educators perceived that the trainings prepared them to teach students with disabilities and to incorporate disability into their curricula. The study found that while institutions are not offering much in disability diversity training, social work educators are seeking out training elsewhere to prepare them to both teach disabled students in their class and to be inclusive of disability in their coursework.