Social workers focus on maintaining and enhancing quality of life. We contribute knowledge and skills to assist people with disability, their families and communities through our work in a range of settings

Our work includes all levels of management and program design, individual planning, counselling, coordination and case management, as well as policy development, research and advocacy.

Social work practice in this field spans a number of approaches and, depending on the role

Assessment

Capacity building

Case management and service coordination

Advocacy

Counselling and therapeutic approaches

Planning

Mediation and conflict resolution

Policy and Program Design and research

In this respect, social workers can inform the decision-making capacities of other professionals and the multidisciplinary team

Above all, social workers respect the primacy of the individual’s rights and work towards people with disability choosing how to live their life.

This multi- focused approach includes knowledge of human functioning and behaviour, and how socioeconomic, legal and cultural factors interact and impact to produce the stigma, discrimination, marginalisation and social isolation experienced by many individuals with disability and their families.

Accessibility

Full and efective participation

Freedom of expression and opinion, and access to information

Independence of persons

freedomfrom exploitation, violence and abuse

Living independently and being included in the community

Equality of opportunity

Adequate standard of living and social protection

Equality between men and women

Respect for home and the family

Respect for inherent dignity

Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport

Work and employment

full inclusion in society

non- discrimination

Autism

Deaf- blindness

Deafness

Emotional disturbance

Hearing impairment

intellectual disability

Multiple disability

Orthopedic impairment

Other healthimpairment

Specific or language

Impairment

traumatic brain injury or

Vísual impairment( including blindness)

People with disabilities are brave and courageous

Wheelchair use is confining; people who use wheelchairs are "wheelchair-bound"

People with disabilities are more comfortable with "their own kind”.

Non-disabled people are obligated to "take care of" people with disabilities.

The lives of people with disabilities are totally different than the lives of people without disabilities

People with disabilities always need help

A person’s disability defines who they are as an individual

There is nothing one person can do to help eliminate the barriers confronting people with disabilities