Self-Advocacy for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities: 15 Tips for Self-Advocates
This issue of NASET’s How To series focuses on self-advocacy for youth and young adults with disabilities. Youth and young adults with disabilities may need services and supports to reach their goals. This often means communicating with agencies and systems that offer services to people with disabilities. It can also mean attending meetings and advocating for themselves. This fact sheet, written by Disability Rights California, includes tips to help youth prepare for meetings, develop a service plan, and resolve conflicts that may arise in the process.
Youth and young adults with disabilities may need services and supports to reach their goals. This often means communicating with agencies and systems that offer services to people with disabilities. It can also mean attending meetings and advocating for themselves. This fact sheet, written by Disability Rights California, includes tips to help youth prepare for meetings, develop a service plan, and resolve conflicts that may arise in the process.
Each of the 15 tips below are explained in more detail:
1. You are the Most Important Person in the Process
2. Keep Records
3. Ask for What You Need
4. Primary Language
5. Know Your Rights
6. Prepare
7. Plan
8. Participate
9. Be Creative
10. Work Together
11. Be Assertive Rather than Aggressive
12. Your Right to Appeal
13. Interim Solutions
14. Confirm Agreements and Action Items
15. Signing Documents
Go to https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/premium-publications/15-tips-for-self-advocates for more information on each of the tips described.
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