Self-Determination Instructional and Assessment Strategies [Paperback]

This teacher-friendly guide presents research-proven instructional techniques that empower students with disabilities to become their own advocates and use effective choice-making, problem-solving, and goal-setting skills.This teacher-friendly guide presents research-proven instructional techniques that empower students with disabilities to become their own advocates and use effective choice-making, problem-solving, and goal-setting skills. There is not available a more comprehensive book in the area of self-determination. Unique because it provides direction for teaching and supporting self-determined behavior across all age groups and also within the general education classroom and curricula. Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
1. Self-Determination: What Is It and Why Is It Important to Students With Disabilities?
Self-Determination: What Is It?
A Functional Model of Self-Determination
A Five-Step Model of Self-Determination
Self-Determination: Why Is It Important to Students With Disabilities?
Impact of Promoting Component Elements of Self-Determined Behavior
Impact of Promoting Self-Determination
2. Self-Determination in the Era of Standards-Based Reform
Promoting Self-Determination in the General Education Curriculum
Self-Determination Content in General Education Standards
Self-Determination and Curriculum Modifications
Infusing Instruction Into the General Education Curriculum Planning
Curriculum Content
3. Educational Planning and Student Involvement
IEP Planning, Access to the General Education Curriculum, and Self-Determination
Supplementary Aids and Services
Specially Designed Instruction
Other Educational Needs
Self-Advocacy and Student Involvement in Educational PlanninglÓA