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Vocabulary Review

This activity aims to help students recognize and understand language with advocacy and decision-making.

Review

Advocacy and Decision-Making Vocabulary (PowerPoint). [Note to Instructors: The vocabulary list is important to review in its entirety to help students fully participate in the subsequent activities.]

Scenarios - Examples of situations or problems you may find yourself in or have already experienced.

Advocacy - Speaking up for something needed to make a positive change. When you do this for yourself and your needs, it is called self-advocacy.

Decision-Making - Making a choice or action when there are several options. This involves thinking about your options and picking the one that seems best.

Advocacy + Decision-Making - When you think of options to fix a situation, you want to practice advocacy for ourselves and for others.

Solutions - When you have a problem or a situation and you are not sure what to do, what are the ways to fix it or possible solutions or actions you can take. You want to make sure your possible solutions include advocacy or self-advocacy.