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Helping Your Child Become a Strong Self-Advocate

Supporting Your Child on Their Journey  

 "Nothing About Me Without Me" (English)    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRUBDnbxdw

"Nothing About Me Without Me" (Spanish)    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3S0kP1REUo

What I Want My Parents to Know (English)    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7kH853a1RA

Talking to Your Child about Their Disability    
https://handtohold.org/talking-with-your-child-about-disability/

How To Talk To Your Child About Their Disability    
https://www.moms.com/how-talking-child-their-disability/

Help Your Young Adult Learn About Accessing Accommodations After High School    
https://www.pacer.org/transition/resource-library/publications/NPC-18.pdf


Self-Advocacy

15 Tips for Self-Advocates    
https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/publications/15-tips-for-self-advocates

Understood.org Podcasts - Real talk and personal stories for and from people who learn and think differently    
https://www.understood.org/podcast

PACER’s Advocating for Myself webpage    
https://www.pacer.org/students/transition-to-life/advocating-for-myself.asp

Teens and Young Adults with Disabilities: Be Your Own Best Advocate    
https://www.pacer.org/parent/php/PHP-c116.pdf


Life Beyond High School

How my IEP transition plan helped me start college with confidence    
https://www.understood.org/en/articles/how-my-iep-transition-plan-helped-me-start-college-with-confidence

Students with Disabilities Transitioning from High School    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqags1Ipxg

Intellectual Disability and College? It Is Possible!    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfIOspau6F4

Students with an Intellectual Disability Share Their College Experience    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpnQQ1wc4xo

CA Department of Rehabilitation Student Services website    
https://www.dor.ca.gov/Home/StudentServices

Supported Decision-Making: What Supported Decision-Making is and why it Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ibel7goeEQ&t=576s

Duties of a Conservator  
https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/publications/duties-of-a-conservator

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