Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities
Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities
A Path to Pride and Success
Authors: 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!
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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
“...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
“...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...”
Additional Information
- STOCK NUMBER: 77358
- ISBN: 978-1-59857-735-8
- COPYRIGHT: 2016
- PAGES: 208
- AVAILABILITY: Available Stock
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- disability pride framework
- informational interview questions
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