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Abstract: The paper gives advice of how to teach Bachelor’s degree students of social work to provide social and legal counselling of parents with disabilities or parents of children with disabilities. Special attention is paid to the necessity of deep knowledge of not only the training program 39.03.02 “Social Work”, but also of the social protection law and the peculiarities of work with people with disabilities. The paper provides a list of social benefits and guarantees given to disabled parents or families with disabled children on the basis of the existing laws in the spheres of social care, health care, education and social support. There is a list of state institutions belonging to different bodies and public charity funds that provide social services to disabled parents or families with disabled children. People with sensory impairment have certain limits in information perception caused by their visual or hearing disorders. Thus, it is necessary to inform the future social work specialists, while they are studying at the university, how to give information to such people (blind or visually impaired, deaf or hearing-impaired, and deafblind). The paper gives recommendations how to equip rooms at institutions working with sensory impaired people necessary to provide high quality counseling of such people in the fields of law and social protection. The room should have computers with software suitable for disabled people and blind aids.