Self-Advocacy Overview

Goals

Students will:

• Identify their learning style and related learning strategies.


Activity 1 provides an opportunity for students to begin evaluating how they learn best using a learning style assessment.


• Gain an understanding of their disabilities and how it affects learning.
  
  Activities 2 and 3 ask students to delve into understanding their disabilities with the help of a professional and a trusted and knowledgeable adult.
  
  
• Identify appropriate accommodations for their disabilities.
  
  Activity 4 introduces the concept of instructional accommodation, the objective of future advocacy.



• Learn about the relationship between the documentation of their disabilities and accommodations.


Activity 5 asks the student to identify and try using one accommodation they learned about in Activity 4 and that is supported by documentation of their disability.


• Learn and practice self-advocacy in school.
  
  Activities 6 and 7 ease students into a leadership role in their IEP meetings, where they discuss and plan for appropriate accommodations. Activities 8 and 9teach students to advocate for and analyze the effect of accommodations in the general education curriculum.