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Orientation
Overview
LD Review
ADD/ADHD
Modify or Accommodate?
GED Tests
Learning Styles Strategies
Teaching Suggestions
LD & ESL/ESOL
Teaching Self-Advocacy
Teaching Social Skills
Learning Environments
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For information on Bridges to Practice training in your area, please contact:
Dr. Rochelle Kenyon, Project Director
rkenyon721@aol.com

 

Teaching Self Advocacy Skills

Teaching students how to deal with their academic strengths and challenges is only part of teaching students with learning disabilities. Another area that you will want to assist students with is self-advocacy.

Self-advocacy is a way of acting that helps the individual tell others about what he/she needs in a way that gets the job done right.

Take a look at the sandwich approach. Have the student think about the make-up of a sandwich. While visualizing (or looking together at a picture such as the one below), first focus the student on a strength that he/she has, next have the student mention a weak area or area of challenge, and follow that quickly by an explanation of a modification or accommodation that the student can use to circumvent or deal with the weak area.

 

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This program was developed by Dr. Rochelle Kenyon, Project Director, Florida Bridges to Practice, through an Adult Education State Leadership Grant from the Florida Department of Education, Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education.

Content development by Dr. Rochelle Kenyon, Susan Pittman and Bonnie Vondracek. Proofing and editing by Meryl Eisenberg.  Web design and development by Dr. Debra L. Hargrove.

Disclaimer:  While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this web-based training component, it is not an official publication of the Florida Department of Education.