Self-Advocacy

Self-advocacy skills are very important for student with disabilities. These skills can be taught beginning in elementary school and teaching these skills can continue through high school. If a student is not taught self-advocacy skills or leaves with limited knowledge of self-advocacy skills the students chance for success are lowered. I found three artifacts that I though would be important to introduce you to in this section of my BLOG. We cannot forget that being able to speaking for your self (self-advocate) is a big part of living in the community and we all need to know how to make ourselves heard.

The first artifact that I am presenting is provided by Wikipedia. This artifact provides us with a general description of self-advocacy. I found it very interesting because it describes the self-advocacy movement as well. If you would like to view this artifact please click on the link that I am providing below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-advocacy

The second artifact that I found is an article provided by Great Schools. This article gives parents information on how to help their child gain self advocacy skills, participate in the community, and know their rights. I found this article very informative and think you will to. If you would like to read this article you can use the following link:

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/2522

The final artifact is called: SELF-ADVOCACY: SPEAKING FOR YOURSELF. This article provides individuals with disabilities information on how to speak for themselves. When you read this article you can get information about self advocacy, how to start a group, what self-advocacy means and making choices. I really enjoyed reading this article and I think that parents and teachers would benefit from reading it. To read this article click on the link below.

http://thechp.syr.edu/saspeak.htm