Activities 41 and 42
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Overview
Self-Advocacy
Assistive Technology
Planning for College
Applying to College
Disability Services
Introduction
Getting Started
Resources
Activity 36
Activity 37
Activity 38-39
Activity 40
Activities 41-42
Activity 43
Summary
Adult Services
Contacting Disability Services Office
What Students Do
Students contact and speak with a disability services coordinator to obtain information on how to obtain services.Planning
Activities 41 and 42 encourage students to contact a DS coordinator and introduce themselves as a student with a disability. Using role-playing, assess the phone skills of each student and determine how much practice will be needed. You may want to email disability services coordinators to give them advance notice of the call or calls that will be coming. Review with students their learning strengths, limitations, and effective accommodations they used in high school.
Introducing the Activity
Practice introductions with a teacher in the building who they don't know very well. Afterward, have the student ask the following questions to determine whether the teacher got an accurate picture of who they are:
- Did I name my disability by its medical name?
- Could you understand how my limitations affect my learning?
- Do you know what makes schoolwork easier for me?
- Did I explain my academic strengths without sounding like I was bragging about myself?
- What could I have explained better?
Supplementary Resources
Ladders to Success, A Student's Guide to School After High School, by Jennifer MacKillop, MSW.Ladders to Success provides a list of sample questions that might be used as a starting point for students.