Online Course Detail
Submitted by jmr on May 31, 2010 - 9:39pm
This class focuses on skill building. Self-advocacy involves an array of skills developed over a lifetime. The roles of children, parents, and professionals in building self-advocacy skills are examined.
This is a Recorded Course which requires either a Windows-based computer or a Mac with speakers/headphones to view. More information is available in the FAQs/Help section
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: Free to View
Course Objectives:
- Upon completing this course, learners will be able to identify the three major groups of skills that make up the self-advocacy process.
- Upon completing this course, learners will be able to explain why self-esteem is the cornerstone for building self-advocacy skills.
- Upon completing this course, learners will be able to explain why it takes a group of people working together to help build self-advocacy skills in a child.
- Upon completing this course, learners will be able to describe how the process of learning self-advocacy can help the child shape his identity as a person with hearing loss.
Course Instructor(s):
John Anderson, Mainstream Adjustment Counselor, Clarke School for the Deaf, Northampton, M.A.