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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Self-advocates"”.
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Strategies for people with intellectual disability to engage in social policy-related self-advocacy in South Africa
… for people with intellectual disability to self-advocate for inclusion of their priorities in social policy processes in South Africa. Method: Self-advocacy strategies were identified through a scoping literature review, a review of self-advocacy toolkits and semistructured interviews with …
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Strategies for people with intellectual disability to engage in social policy-related self-advocacy in South Africa
… for people with intellectual disability to self-advocate for inclusion of their priorities in social policy processes in South Africa. Method: Self-advocacy strategies were identified through a scoping literature review, a review of self-advocacy toolkits and semistructured interviews with …
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Leading the way to promote self-determination of individuals with autism spectrum disorder
… Alberta could exercise leadership to promote self-determination of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). I utilized action research engagement and included people with ASD. The study, which employed a neurodiversity lens and added new knowledge relative to self-determination theories, …
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Understanding the History of Institutionalization: Making connections to De-institutionalization and the Olmstead Act for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in the State of Illinois
… to reconvene a committee of stakeholders and self-advocates, to investigate using the Blueprint as a guide in development of an established Olmstead Plan, in effort to prevent future litigations and provide sustainability, in Illinois.</p>
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Self-Advocacy Experiences of College Students with Learning Disabilities and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
<p>Self-advocacy is identified as a factor important to the success of college students with Learning Disabilities (LD) and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, educators do not yet know enough about the experience of self-advocacy in the post-secondary learning environment …
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Introducing Self-Advocacy Skills to Transition Age Youth
… that there is a need and a desire for a self-advocacy training from the staff and the clients. After reviewing the literature and analyzing data from the needs assessment tools the project intern developed a self-advocacy training.</p> <p>The project purpose was to design training that …
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Profiles of Promise: Students With Learning Difference Prepare For Optimal Foreign Language Learning
… their attitudes toward the program. Student self-images, their awareness of their learning styles, and what they learned about the study of language were assessed. Analysis indicates that students did benefit from HOLA! in different ways, but the benefits in common were two-fold: an awareness …
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Language, power, and representation: developing a framework for digital best practices in autism discourse
… on key metrics such as the presence of autistic self-advocates, accessibility features, and transparent communication practices. The findings revealed considerable variability in website quality, with noticeable gaps in accessibility and the meaningful inclusion of autistic voices. To address …
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"And then you can prove them wrong": The college experiences of students with intellectual and developmental disability labels
… practitioners, Disability Studies scholars, self-advocates, and their allies to explore the contours and conflicts of intellectual disability identity, affinity, and college membership, challenging us all to honor student experiences while continually bending towards a future we have perhaps …
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Structure or Knot: What Phenomenology and Asperger’s Syndrome can Teach Lacanian Psychoanalysis About Subjective Constitution
… the viewpoint of neurodiversity and autistic self-advocates, and from within Lacanian psychoanalysis, with specific attention paid to the diagnostic approach in Lacanian thinking and the assumed relationship between autism and psychosis. Four published autobiographies written by autistic …
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"You Missed the Exam!" A Discourse with College Students with Learning Disabilities on their Experiences with Self-Determination, Self-Advocacy, and Stigma in Secondary and Postsecondary Education
… In particular, this study focused on the self-determination of college students with learning disabilities, how they understand the concept of self-advocacy, and how they utilize self-advocacy skills in educational settings. Eleven college students with learning disabilities participated …
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Overlapping Spectrums: Examining the Meaning-Making of Gender Diverse Autistic Adults Using a Participatory Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Approach
… seldom been present in the research literature. Self-advocates within the autism and transgender community note that “rejecting the reality of trans autistic people’s gender identities can be dangerous, even life threatening” (ASAN, 2016b, p. 1). As such, there is a clear need to better …
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Autism, Neurodiversity, and the Good Life: On the Very Possibility of Autistic Thriving
… This builds on arguments made by autistic self-advocates who argue in favour of de-medicalising and instead politicising autistic disablement and distress. However, the originality of this thesis lies in three key factors. First: it focuses more specifically on the purported impossibility …
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Development of a conceptual framework to inform self-advocacy for social and health-related policy priorities of adults with intellectual disability
… development of a conceptual framework to support self-advocacy by people with intellectual disability for the inclusion of their priorities in social and health-related policy in South Africa. The study was informed by empowerment theory, with the integration of the concept of Ubuntu. Method: The …