Resources: Instruction in Self-Advocacy

Curriculum

1. Explore-Work.com
   WINTAC has worked with Employment Resources, Inc. (ERI), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Wisconsin-Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute (SVRI) to design a series of web-based modules specific to the five required WIOA Pre-Employment Transition Services activities for use with students with disabilities.
2. T-Folio - T-Folio is a free online transition portfolio tool for high school-age youth with disabilities. The curriculum provides facilitators with lesson plans and tips to help youth build self-determination and job-readiness skills through a series of interactive exercises. T-Folio curriculum aligns with Individual Education Program (IEP) transition planning, DVR Pre-Employment Transition Service categories, and the CCTS Transition Services Flowchart.
3. Pathways to the Future (West Virginia) - This includes sample lesson plans and detailed curricula for students with disabilities that schools,VR, or other partners could use in delivering any of the five required Pre-ETS services. We advise that you thoroughly review these to see what activities you would approve your vendors using.
4. TransitionTN Curriculum Database - TransitionTN has developed a searchable database of curriculum that includes options for providing the five required pre-employment transition services. You can search by Pre-ETS category, payment type (Free to subscription) and accessibility for hearing and vision impairments.
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5. Transition Alliance - ME! Scale (and related lessons) - The Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment at the University of Oklahoma has develop many resources to assist with self-determination, choice making, and more.
   • ME! Scale
6. MN Blind-Level Up Self Advocacy Series
   • Student Rubric for Student Led IEPs
   • Student Led IPEs Student Tools
   • Student Led IPEs Teacher Resource
   • Parent Brochure Student Led IPEs
   • Student Brochure Student Led IPEs
7. E-college: An eight-week high school curriculum for students with disabilities. Its purpose is to utilize direct instruction to provide college bound students with the skills and knowledge necessary to successfully meet their postsecondary educational goals. A unique and powerful feature of this program is that student learning is reinforced through email mentoring with a successful college student who also has a disability.
8. Self-Advocacy and the Transition to College is an eight-lesson curriculum for teachers and service providers that addresses the specific needs of students with disabilities as they get ready for postsecondary education.
9. Deaf Self-Advocacy Training (DSAT): This specialized curriculum is devoted to teaching deaf individuals to self-advocate for effective interpreting services.

Other Activities

1. I’m Determined
2. Charting the Life Course
3. The ARC Self-Determination Scale

   Dr. Michael Wehmeyer and his colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, developed and normed the ARC Self-Determination Scale to: (a) assess the self-determination strengths and weaknesses of adolescents with disabilities, (b) facilitate student involvement in educational planning and instruction to promote self-determination as an educational outcome, (c) develop self-determination goals and objectives, and (d) assess student self-determination skills for research purposes.

   After students complete the assessment, the ARC Scale yields a total self-determination and four sub-domain scores.

   • Autonomy
   • Self-Regulation
   • Psychological Empowerment
   • Self-Realization
   • Total Self-Determination
4. Self-Advocacy Online
   The NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Living and Participation hosts Self-Advocacy Online, a website featuring content of interest to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities involved in the self-advocacy movement. Visitors can view dozens of short video interviews with self-advocates from across the country, explore lessons on different aspects of self-advocacy, and read easy-to-understand presentations about research in self-advocacy. Recent videos added to the Center's YouTube channel cover Employment First, remaining active, and making friends in the community with the help of Direct Support Professionals.
5. National Deaf Center Self-Determination Inventory
6. Minnesota's Pre-ETS Toolkit with Resources - A Resource for Providing Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) for Minnesota Students with Disabilities.
7. Self-Advocacy in the Workplace provides tips on becoming an effective self-advocate in the workplace.
8. The ARC Self-Determination Scale: Assists to: (a) assess the self-determination strengths and weaknesses of adolescents with disabilities, (b) facilitate student involvement in educational planning and instruction to promote self-determination as an educational outcome, (c) develop self-determination goals and objectives, and (d) assess student self-determination skills for research purposes.
9. Charting the LifeCourse is a collection of planning materials to help people with disabilities and their families think about what they need to know at any age or stage of life, including how to find or develop supports and discover what it takes to live the lives they choose.
10. Promoting Quality Individualized Learning Plans from the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability- Youth (NCWD-Youth) has a plethora of ideas and classroom activities related to career development for high school students. NCWD-Youth also has a list of lesson plans based on the Guideposts for Success.
11. Self-Advocacy Online
12. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Living and Participation is NIDILRR funded and hosts Self-Advocacy Online, a website featuring content of interest to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities involved in the self-advocacy movement. Visitors can view dozens of short video interviews with self-advocates from across the country, explore lessons on different aspects of self-advocacy, and read easy-to-understand presentations about research in self-advocacy. Recent videos added to the Center's YouTube channel cover Employment First, remaining active, and making friends in the community with the help of Direct Support Professionals.
13. National Deaf Center Self-Determination Inventory
14. Peer Mentoring Works-Self-Advocacy and Peer Mentoring

Other Links

1. Job Accommodation Network
2. PACER’S National Parent Center on Transition and Employment