The Self-Advocacy Movement is a civil rights movement for individuals with disabilities. The purpose of this movement is to empower individuals with disabilities to take more control over their lives, their education, their decisions, and their relationships.
Purpose of Assignment: This project requires you to research and inform others about a controversial topic or self-advocacy work impacting individuals with disabilities. This project is designed with several goals in mind:
- To give you familiarity with historical and contemporary issues impacting and influencing the lives of individuals with disabilities.
- To give you a sense of the individuality among people with disabilities.
- To give you an opportunity to find and use research from multiple sources, including academic articles and first-person accounts.
- To give you practice citing sources appropriately in APA style; and
- To share information about your topic and research findings with others.