Self-determination Vocabulary

overall patterns that provide direction to learning and teaching

• self-awareness

• self-confidence

• temperament

• Learning styles

basic reading, writing, and number skills

• Accommodations/modifications

• Leisure skills/activities

• Health/medical issues

• Functional academic skills

Anything that keeps you from accomplishing a goal or makes the goal more difficult to achieve

• self-confidence

• Learning styles

• Health/medical issues

• Barriers/Challenges

a greater liking for one alternative over another or others

• preference

• self-awareness

• attitude

• temperament

Supports that remove barriers

• Functional academic skills

• Health/medical issues

• Accommodations/modifications

• Leisure skills/activities

trust in your own abilities, qualities, and judgment

• self-advocacy

• self-determination

• self-awareness

• self-confidence

basic and fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes or actions

• preference

• values

• attitude

• temperament

knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires

• self-advocacy

• self-determination

• self-awareness

• self-confidence

Ways to occupy yourself when you have down time or free time

• self-determination

• Leisure skills/activities

• Health/medical issues

• Learning styles

the process by which a person controls their own life

• self-advocacy

• self-confidence

• self-determination

• self-awareness