Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities

A Path to Pride and Success

Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Ph.D., LeDerick Horne

Inspiring and informative, this encouraging guidebook will help you empower students with non-visible disabilities as they manage their challenges, accept and advocate for themselves, and reach their goals and dreams. Includes practical teaching tips ready to use in the classroom!

Contains Companion Materials

How can you empower students with invisible disabilities to manage their challenges, accept and advocate for themselves, and reach their goals and dreams? This guidebook has inspiring and informative answers. Told with the authentic voices of adults with hidden disabilities, this encouraging, eye-opening book will help you guide students on the Path to Disability Pride and support their success in the classroom and community. Personal stories blend with powerful strategies as the authors share reflections on their experience with disability—and offer up practical teaching tips and interventions based on the latest research. An essential resource for educators, families, and self-advocates, this book will help students with non-visible disabilities dare to dream big and unlock their full potential.

DISCOVER HOW TO

• promote disability pride within students, schools, and communities
• teach critical life skills, including social-emotional, executive function, reading, and coping skills
• reduce the stigma of hidden disabilities
• develop mentoring programs that connect students with advice and encouragement
• assist college students as they navigate the challenges of campus life and classes
• prepare young adults to launch fulfilling careers and responsible, self-determined adult lives
• help students develop authentic and meaningful relationships with others
• support students with a range of hidden disabilities, including ADHD, learning disabilities, autism, and emotional and behavioral disturbance

PRACTICAL MATERIALS: A helpful "Path to Disability Pride" framework that readers can use to track their own path to pride or help advocate for someone else's; ready-to-use Teaching Tips for the classroom; candid stories from and interviews with people who have hidden disabilities.

Reviews

John Capecci, co-author, Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference - March 25, 2016

“The personal stories of determination and pride Izzo and Horne include here demonstrate, without a doubt, the importance of visibility to the lives of those with hidden disabilities. This book provides direction, inspiration, and a clear path forward.”

David Test, Professor of Special Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte - March 18, 2016

“Given the authors' backgrounds I was not surprised to see the excellent mixture of research, practical case examples, and useful strategies. This text is a must read for anyone who is assisting students with disabilities to be successful in college and careers.”

Karrie Shogren, Associate Professor, co-Director of the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, Associate Director of Beach Center on Disability - March 18, 2016

“This book provides a message of empowerment and high expectations for people with hidden disabilities along with real-world strategies that students, young adults, and those that support them can implement to make the transition to college and meaningful careers a reality.”

Authors: Margo Vreeburg Izzo Ph.D., LeDerick R. Horne Invited Contributor: Bill Bauer Ph.D.

Read the blog posts

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11 Strategies for Helping Your Students Develop Disability Pride

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