# Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities

## A Path to Pride and Success

### Authors: [Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=75896&Name=Margo+Izzo,Ph.D.), [LeDerick Horne](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=75897&Name=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

This product has additional material available on the Brookes Download Hub.

- disability pride framework
- informational interview questions

Visit the [Download Hub](https://downloads.brookespublishing.com/resource/empowering-students-with-hidden-disabilities/) for a preview of what's available.