Advocate yourself!
What is..
What does IEP stand for?
Individualized Education Program
Definition: The use of body language to express your thoughts or a message.
Nonverbal communication
You want to tell someone how you feel. Which communication style should you use?
a) Passive
b) Assertive
c) Aggressive
b ) Assertive - stand up for your own or other people's rights in a calm and positive way
Definition: Small changes to help someone be successful.
What are accommodations?
the process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues.
Problem Solving
Role play: Your friend borrowed your math textbook and has not given it back for three days now, and you need it to study for an upcoming test.
Ask for it back politely
What is self-awareness?
having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motives, desires and emotions.
Self-awareness plays an important role on how to self-advocate.
What does IDEA stand for?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Definition: A technique that allows students to practice communicating in realistic situations by interacting with other people.
What is a role-play?
Beliefs and/or attitudes people have toward other people and/or situations without knowledge and facts about those people or situations (race, social class, gender, etc.)
What is prejudice?
What is self-advocacy?
A person making a purposeful effort to speak up for his/her needs wants and desires.
When was the ADA signed?
July 26, 1990
What does the ADA stand for?
Americans with Disabilities Act
You speak up for yourself to let other people know what you _______ and ________.
Need and want
Name 4 places someone may need to self-advocate at.
What is home, school, work, Doctor's office, restaurant, store
What president signed the ADA into law?
What is President George H. W. Bush
Definition: Changes to what a student is expected to do in school. These are large changes to help someone be successful at school. Ex: Allowing outlining instead of writing an essay for an essay.
Modifications
An event where more than 60 activists came to Washington DC and crawled 83 steps that go to the Capitol building. The goal was to pass the ADA, American Disabilities Act.
What is the Capital Crawl?