Self-advocacy matters. Here’s how it aligns with servant leadership principles, and ways to reframe self-advocacy as a constructive, necessary part of career mobility. The Fast Company Executive Board ...
Flying in the face of conventional wisdom, looking inward is often needed to help professionals become more effective when looking outward. Becoming a successful collaborator requires a variety of ...
What, exactly, is self-advocacy and what is its place in the autism community? Autism is a communication disorder, with a broad range of affect. Some people's autism makes them eccentric and geeky.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Success in the workplace often hinges not just on your ability to perform but on how well you advocate for yourself. Self-advocacy ...
It may seem like there are many different issues splitting the autism community—including fights over educational, vocational, residential, medical, and therapeutic services. But these battles really ...
When children are young, as parents and caregivers we tend to be their voice. But as our kids grow and have opinions of their own, we make the shift from being their voice to their megaphone to their ...
The Social Care Institute for Excellence recommends self-advocacy as a way of ensuring people with learning disabilities and complex needs are not left behind in personalisation reforms The ...
We want a healthy democracy, but in its current state, citizen advocacy in America can’t get us there. In 2018, 79 percent of grassroots advocacy professionals said that “a form email is their primary ...