Assistant Professor of Social Work
Salisbury University
Salisbury, Maryland, United States
Ellen Schaefer-Salins, Ph.D., LCSW-C is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. She teaches practice courses and diversity courses and is the developer and advisor for the Deaf Studies Minor that began in the Spring of 2021, and the Disability Studies Minor starting in the Fall of 2022. She also has a private practice where she has provided mental health therapy to people who are deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing for over 35 years. Her BSW is from McDaniel College, her MSW is from the University of Maryland School of Social Work, and her Ph.D. is from Catholic University. Her research has focused on attachment issues of deaf adults with hearing parents; and the individual effects of audism (discrimination against people who are deaf), ableism (discrimination against people with a disability), and linguicism (discrimination based on the way a person speaks, or due to the language that they speak). In addition she has written articles about psychological theories named after and influenced by the works of Lewis Carroll.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM