Self-Advocacy

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to advocate for yourself?

• Talking down about a coworker.

• Speaking up for yourself.

• Not asking for help.

Multiple Choice

Which one demonstrates someone advocating for themselves?

• Shouting at your manager because you just got a papercut.

• Asking for the answers during a tst

• Telling your guardian that you need to go to the store for your medication that just ran out.

• Stomp down the hall and yell at your sibling to stop playing their music.

​Where and when?

​- At school

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​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRKWSHkbgNw

Multiple Choice

I can be an advocate in my community

Multiple Choice

I can be an advocate at my school.

Multiple Choice

I can be an advocate on vacation.

Multiple Choice

I cannot be an advocate at work.

Multiple Choice

I can advocate for myself at the doctors office.

​How can you advocate?

• ​Speak out

• ​Join your local community group

• ​Talk with your peers

• ​Go to your boss/coworkers for help

• ​Ask for help when you need it

• ​Reach out to Vocational Rehab and/or other organizations out there for help

• ​How else??

6 Keys to Self-Advocacy

1. ​Start early

2. ​Become self-aware

3. ​Stay positive

4. ​Ask for help

5. ​Engage in critical thinking

6. ​Get involved!!

​Is it really important?

YES!!!!!!!

• ​​Builds self-esteem

  Helps you plan for your future

  ​Requires independence and critical thinking.

Multiple Choice

You're at a restaurant and the waiter brings you the wrong food. How do you advocate for yourself?

• Eat the food, even though it's the wrong order.

• Tell the waiter that they must have given you the wrong food and ask for the correct order.

• Demand to speak to the manager and get a full refund on the bill.

Multiple Choice

You're at the store and can't read what the label says on the aisle markers, how can you advocate for yourself?

• Walk out of the store

• Stand in the aisle screaming until someone comes to help you.

• Find the nearest store employee and ask for help.

Multiple Select

You're at work at OTC and didn't hear the directions for the task you have to complete. How do you advocate for yourself?

• Complete the task the way that you think it should be completed.

• Find another co-worker and ask them what the directions were.

• Ask your supervisor if they can repeat the directions.

• Stomp off and cry in the bathroom.

Multiple Choice

You are applying for a job and the boss asks if there are any special accommodations you may need on the job. How do you advocate for yourself?

• Tell them that you're all good and ready to work.

• Ask to call your guardian to ask them.

• Don't say anything and just walk out.

• Disclose your disability and ask them for what you need.

Multiple Choice

Your annual IEP is coming up. You don't feel that your goals are reflecting what you need help on. How do you advocate for yourself?

• Tell your guardian to let them know.

• Show up to the meeting and give your input.

• Don't say anything and just keep doing it.

• Refuse to do anything.

Multiple Choice

Your employer can fire you for disclosing your disability.

Multiple Choice

You have the power to direct your own life.

• YES

• NO

​Resources

​https://www.sabeusa.org/

​https://ncil.org/

​http://selfadvocacyonline.org/

​https://leagueofhumandignity.com/locations-service-area/#8

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