Description
Help students build confidence in communicating their needs, making choices, and participating in decisions about their lives! These lesson slides connect self-advocacy to situations at school, work, and in the community. Students explore how to advocate using speech, AAC, signs, gestures, pictures, or written messages.
The lesson uses simple language, clear examples, multiple-choice questions, and realistic scenarios to support classroom discussions and comprehension.
This comes with:
- 22 slides
- Direct instruction in student-friendly language
- Real-world examples
- Multiple-choice comprehension questions
- Scenario-based practice
- A final review of important reminders
Students will learn:
- Understanding self-advocacy.
- Identifying strengths, preferences, needs, and goals.
- Communicating choices and asking questions.
- Requesting help, breaks, and useful supports.
- Setting personal boundaries and saying no.
- Speaking up when something is wrong.
- Seeking support when others do not listen.
- Participating in IEP meetings and transition planning.
This lesson is ideal for:
- High school special education classrooms
- Transition programs
- Life skills instruction
- Social skills lessons
- Functional health and safety instruction
- Small-group instruction
- Morning meetings
- IEP goal practice







