a new resource for us parents - just passing it on :-)

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Greetings from NICHCY, the National Dissemination Center for

Children with Disabilities. You are receiving this message because

you signed up for our eNews service and indicated that you were

interested in identifying resources on Independent Living and Self-

Determination.

We thought you might be interested in knowing about the Self-

Determination Technical Assistance Centers, located at:

http://www.uncc.edu/sdsp/home.asp

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with a grant from the

Office of Special Education Projects at the U.S. Department of

Education, is conducting a review and synthesis of the knowledge

base and best practices related to self-determination and self-

advocacy interventions in order to improve, expand, and accelerate

the use of this knowledge by the professionals who serve children

and youth with disabilities and the parents who rear, educate, and

support their children with disabilities. Of particular interest to

you may be their resource, Lesson Plans: From Research to Practice:

Lesson Plans for Promoting Self-Determination.

These self-determination lesson plan starters have been developed

based on the description of the intervention and data collection

procedures provided in each study. You'll find:

--- Component skills of self-determination

--- Participation in decision making

--- Teaching students to participate in IEP meetings through the use

of Choicemaker Self-Directed IEP multimedia package that was

modified for non-readers

--- Teaching social problem solving and assertiveness skills

--- Person-centered planning

--- Preparing students with learning disabilities for transition to

postsecondary education

--- Help-recruiting (self-advocacy skills)

--- Developing and implementing self-scheduling

--- Obtaining accommodations guaranteed under ADA

--- Teaching assertiveness

We hope you'll find these resources helpful to your interests or can

pass along the information to someone who will. As we come across

new resources, we'll let you know about them via an eNews letter

such as this one. Until then, please feel free to call or email us

with your disability-related concerns, or visit our Web site, at:

www.nichcy.org.

NICHCY

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