Advice for Professionals from Parents with Disabilities

Dr. Elizabeth Lightfoot has published a guidebook on working with parents with disabilities for social service providers. It is available in both English and Spanish.

Lightfoot, E., Hollie, K., Dangle, P., & Goto, K. (2024). Supporting Parents with Disabilities: A User-friendly Guide for Social Service Providers. School of Social Work, Arizona State University. https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/lizlightfoot/home/parents-with-disabilities

Geared toward professionals working with parents on the autism spectrum, this guide outlines ways that medical practitioners, social workers, child welfare workers, and others who work with members of this population can accommodate their clients' needs.

Professionals working with parents with intellectual disabilities can use this brief to learn strategies to communicate effectively, provide culturally competent support, and accommodate their clients' needs.

In this Twitter chat, mothers with disabilities share their advice for professionals who work with parents with disabilities.

This brief provides a number of tips that medical practitioners can use when working with mothers with physical disabilities.