Introduction

Today we are going to about systems advocacy and self-advocacy.   What we’re not going to talk about is self-advocacy from a curricular or skill-building perspective.  

I’m going to try to give you some information about advocacy from a broader perspective because while I think developing self-advocacy skills are important and students must have these skills, I also think you need to understand how to advocate at a systems level. This is the focus of today’s lecture: disability activism and systems advocacy.

For this session, you will need to have the following items ready:

1. CD-ROM inserted into your disk drive. You will be watching 2 clips:
         a. Ed Roberts.mov
         b. KYLF.mov
2.   You don't need any handouts for this session, but if you want to review the Partners in Policymaking curriculum, you can find this in Bb.     

Mary E. Morningstar, Ph.D.         KU Dept. of Special Ed.                           © 2004