Doulas and Disabilities Resources
One in six adults worldwide (World Health Organization) is currently disabled. Many more disabled people do not have a diagnosis, and many currently-abled people will become disabled at some point in their lives. The reality of disability affects doula work both in how disabled clients and disabled doulas navigate care and support. Yet despite how common disability is, there are few resources for doulas regarding disability. There's very view resources about the intersection of doulas and disabilities (except for the training from BADT - listed below). But we can start somewhere by educating yourselves about disabilities in general and the specific disability your client has. You can do research and then ask your disabled client what you need to know to best support them in order to meet them where they are.
Additional Educational Opportunities
- 10 Places to Start to Create Access from Disabilities Intersectionality Summit
- Doulaing with a Disability by Amy Gilliand
- Prerecorded Birth & Disabilities CE Course from Birthing Advocacy Doula Training
- Introduction to Disability justice and its intersections with reproductive justice
- Introduction to Disability justice and its intersections with reproductive justice
- Access is Love: List of Readings and Resources
- This is a list compiled by Disability Activists: Sandy Ho, Mia Mingus, and Alice Wong for the #AccessIsLove project.
- This is a list compiled by Disability Activists: Sandy Ho, Mia Mingus, and Alice Wong for the #AccessIsLove project.
- "Disability Viability" Podcast by Disability Activist, Alice Wong.
- "My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church" by Amy Kenny
- Keep in mind this is written from a Christian perspective.
- Keep in mind this is written from a Christian perspective.
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