Navigate The System
Home, work, school and the list of systems we live within goes on and on. The key to getting what you want out of each environment is to understand the infrastructure and what role you play within it.
“Understanding how to run your own IEP doesn’t mean you have to understand every line of IDEA. It just means you have to understand what role you play in the IEP meeting and how to assert your own needs and aspirations and get what you want,” Ne’eman says.
It’s the little things in life too, like learning to share a toy with a friend or interacting with other passengers on a bus.
Parents who have children with disabilities need to teach self advocacy. If your child can communicate in anyway, please teach them to stand up for themselves!
Awesome article and extremely timely for me as I am simultaneously growing into Autism Sel-Advocacy and creating my own Foundation to advocate for the Rights of other Autistic Persons, who don’t yet have the Ability to do so for themselves. My Foundation is going to help Autistic Persons do everythIng for themselves, one day, because I Am. I am 47.8 years old and I was non-verbal from birth until age 7. I taught myself Life and now I Am Ready to Live. When I was a Child, when I began to start Speaking, I told my father, I want to be a Clinical Research and Child Psychologist so that No Child has to grow up Like I Am. And I Will Be because I have been doing the Work all my Life. I finally know what Self-Love Is because I Am Taking Care of Me, First. God’s got My back and that makes it that much more Divine. My Autism at birth was a Gift from God and today, I Feel Proud to honor that Gift by making sure, through the creation of my Autism Foundation, No Child Ever Has To Grow Up Like I Did. Thank you for giving the Strength, through this article, to continue Fighting the Good Fight
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