Self-Advocacy Training Nevada Y.E.S. Youth Empowering Students Project

Excerpt from a training video for public school children with disabilities to help prepare them for life after high school.

This project was funded by the NGCDD and specifically created for the Y.E.S Program. The following topics were covered in a 45 minute training video:

 

–      Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) 

–      Disability 

–      Advocacy/Self Advocacy 

–      Self-Awareness 

–      Leadership 

–      Informed Choice, Self Determination 

–      Individual Needs 

–      Laws and Rights 

–      Discrimination, Segregation, Integration 

–      I.D.E.A., W.I.O.A., ADA 

–      IEP 

–      Transition 

–      Decisions and Choices 

–      Communication 

–      Responsibilities  

–      Careers and Employment 

–      Post-Secondary Education 

–      Guardianship 

–      Self Determination