Know Yourself: Know Your Environment

Self-Advocacy Skills

Worksheet

Answer the following questions on your worksheet:

• Who are you?

• What skills do you have?

• What environments create barriers for you?

• What do you want to achieve?

• What do you need to achieve your goals?

How Do I Get There?• What do I have to identify?

– Strengths

– Areas of concern

– Environment• Barriers• Accommodations

• Support Systems

•Who are they?

•How do I use them?

Your Life…

You are taking these classes next semester:

ENGL 104

PHIL 231

SOCI 270

PSYC 102

CAHC 211

What Do I Have?

• What information do I have?

• What am I missing?

• Where do I get that information?

• How do I get that information?

• What skills or accommodations do I have?

What is Self-Advocacy?

What does self-advocacy mean to you?

Why does anyone need self-advocacy skills?

How do you develop self-advocacy skills?

How does one begin?

What have you been advocating so far for yourself?

What are your concerns about advocating for yourself?

Know Yourself:

What does this mean?

How do you know yourself?

Will you always know yourself?

Critical Reflection

Know Your Environment:

Why must you understand the environment?

What does “environment” include?

Are we always talking buildings?

Critical Reflection

What has worked?

What have you tried? What have you NOT tried?

Think outside the box!

How does Self-Advocacy apply to more than classroom experience?