Human Rights & Employment

2. Human Rights PWID

2.4. Human Rights in action – Self-advocacy

People who have acquired self-advocacy skills are empowered to organise their thoughts and express themselves more effectively, to articulate their wishes and to communicate them to others. In this way they can exercise their human rights. They can have choices and control in their lives. Self-advocacy skills support people to achieve independence and self-determination to the best of their abilities.

 A ‘conceptual framework’ of self-advocacy for students with disabilities features four key steps that are required to become an effective self-advocate:

 

• Knowledge of self
• Knowledge of rights
• Communication of knowledge of self and rights
• Leadership

 

(A Conceptual Framework for Self-Advocacy David Test et al – University of Carolina at Charlotte 2015)

Activity ideas

Watch this video  ”Parents Teaching Self-Advocacy Skills: Helping Your Child Toward Self-Determination”

 
and this video ”Self-determination and self-advocacy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities”

 

Give a title to the following sketch.