Teaching Self-Advocacy

When our learners are faced with an uncomfortable situation or presented with something they don’t want, they don’t always have someone there to advocate for them. Because of this, it’s critical for us to teach them how to advocate for themselves at an early age. Here, we discuss the importance of self-advocacy and how to best teach it to our learners. We cover the differences between self-advocacy and appropriate protesting and how to teach learners to know what’s safe and what isn’t. We als...