We created this last winter (2012) for an event at Patrick’s Cabaret. The film features performers from Interact Theater Company in Minneapolis, MN. Interact is an arts program for artists with disabilities. Our mission is to create art and challenge society’s view of disability. Check out our website or Facebook page and say hello!
Lauren Potter speaks at the 23rd Annual Best Buddies International Leadership Conference: Inclusion Revolution, about her experience with Best Buddies, how the organization has helped make her dreams a reality, and how it can help others with intellectual and developmental disabilities achieve their own dreams. Lauren Potter, who plays Becky Jackson on the Fox television […]
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 […]
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 […]
A five minute video about what self-advocacy is … skills students need to be good self-advocates and some strategies on teaching.
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.
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.
