Advocacy for Parents & Guardians of Students Living with Disabilities

Encouraging Positive Disability Identity & Self-Determination in your student

• Intro to Transition and ODLSS team
• Understanding Disability: Overcoming Challenges, Stigma & Discrimination
• Disability History (Road to the ADA, IL movement)
• Encouraging Positive Disability Identity
• Medical Model vs. Social Model
• Disability Rights Laws (Shift from IDEA to ADA Rights)
• Disability Language & Etiquette
• Encouraging Self-Determination & Self-Advocacy
• Disability Disclosure in the Real World

Transition is a journey… NOT a place!