Advocacy

You'll find more than 500 research based teacher tested support strategies in The New Transition Handbook, the modern transition guide for today's students and the professionals who support them.

From Amazon.com:
"This essential resource encourages parents to adopt a unique "coaching-style" approach in their parenting and urges parents to stop micromanaging their teen's day-to-day life. Using college readiness surveys and handy worksheets, parents can objectively determine if they are playing a productive or nonproductive role in their teenager's life and learn ways to promote self-determination, daily living and academic skills by using the time in high school to help their teen be ready for take-off."

From Goodreads.com:
"Self-determination has a powerful positive impact on post-school outcomes for young adults with disabilities but how can educators teach students the skills they need to make their own choices and achieve their goals as they enter adulthood? This empowering guidebook shows the way. Packed with practical, research-validated guidance on explicitly teaching self-determination skills, this book helps educators support students in communicating their interests and needs, setting and reaching goals, and managing their own lives. Ready-to-use worksheets and activities will help students take an active role in their transition planning, and true case stories highlight the benefits of self-determination instruction: smoother transitions, improved behavior, and fulfilling lives beyond the classroom."

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) recognized that people with disabilities should have the right to exercise their legal capacity and identified 'supported decision-making' as a means by which people with disabilities can be directly involved in decisions that impact their lives. Offering an overview of its emergence in the disability field and highlighting emerging research, theory, and practice from legal, psychology, education, and health fields, this volume provides a much-needed theoretical and evidence base for supported decision-making. Evidence and strengths-based frameworks for understanding disability, supports, and their roles in promoting supported decision-making are synthesized.

Describes the DO-IT program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology) at the University of Washington. The program was developed to increase the participation of people with disabilities in the fields of science, engineering and mathematics. High school students attend summer programs at the Univ. of Washington to find out what campus life involves. DO-IT scholars are supported with computer systems, adaptive technologies and Internet connections.