Self-Advocacy Strategy

The Self-Advocacy Strategy can be used by students when preparing for and participating in any type of conference, including education and transition planning conferences (IEP or ITP conferences). Strategy steps provide both a way of getting organized before a conference and effective communication techniques to use during the conference.

When students learned the Self-Advocacy Strategy, 86 percent of the goals they most valued were found in their IEPs. Students who had not learned the Self-Advocacy Strategy had only 13 percent of their desired goals in their IEPs.