Monthly Archives: November 2014

My History, Our Future – Self-Advocacy Training Video: 9 Public Speaking

My History, Our Future

My History, Our Future is a video-based training program created for youth and adults with developmental disabilities to learn how to be self-advocates and for their allies to learn how to best support self-advocacy. Self-advocacy is an important life skill necessary for citizenship and leading a meaningful life. Allies are support workers, relatives, friends or […]

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Self-Advocacy Skills

Self-Advocacy Skills

What is self-advocacy and why do D/HH students need it? What does a D/HH student need to know in order to be a self-advocate? Can self-advocacy skills be part of IEP goals? This video is part of the Building Brighter Futures! tutorial series produced by the Minerva Deaf Research Lab (MDRL) at the University of […]

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Envisioning the Future: Allies in Self-Advocacy

Allies in Self-Advocacy
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Audrey Wagnon, Self-advocate with Down syndrome

Audrey Wagnon
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No More Barriers

No More Barriers
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StrategyTube – Self-Advocacy & Students with Learning Disabilities

Self-Advocacy & Students with Learning Disabilities

A five minute video about what self-advocacy is … skills students need to be good self-advocates and some strategies on teaching.

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Self-Advocacy – National Gateway to Self-Determination

Self Advocacy

What is self-advocacy? Why is it important? In this video, self-advocates describe what it is, how it works, why it’s needed, and how to be more self-determined and use self-advocacy in your own life. Thanks to National Gateway to Self-Determination for this video.

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Self-Advocacy & Me

Self-Advocacy & Me

A short film about the self-advocacy civil rights movement, starring people with intellectual disabilities. Part of a series that includes ODSP & ME, also available on YouTube. Thanks to LiveWorkPlay for sharing this video.

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Ten Steps To Effective Self-Advocacy

Ten Steps to Effective Self-Advocacy

Thanks to Disability Rights Florida for sharing this video.

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How do I protect myself against Ebola?

Here is information on ebola and how to protect your self  from getting the disease click here Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe disease that causes haemorrhagic fever in humans and animals . Diseases that cause haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola, are often fatal as they affect the body’s vascular system (how blood moves […]

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