By Clay Kaufman

What does it mean to be a good self-advocate? And how can we inculcate good self- advocacy skills in our children? Self-advocacy is one of the most valuable real-world skills to build. It includes expressing your thoughts and opinions effectively, learning how to ask for help when necessary and, of course, learning how to stand up for what you believe in. Ultimately those skills help ensure that we all learn how to speak up in our lives and careers when we are not respected, to have the confidence to ask for proper compensation (and not always just accept what we are given) and to seek new opportunities. In broadest terms, it is a tool to confront injustice.

In school, especially for younger students, self-advocacy starts with learning how to speak up. Parents and teacher

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