Module 2, Topic 1, Web

DIS 499/599: Module 2: Topic 1: Web Activity

Module 2: Cultural Competence

Topic 1: Exploring Individual Cultural Values and How Language Shapes Values

Week 6: 2/18 - 2/24

Web Activity

Objectives:

* To identify different factors involved in planning for disability-related services and supports

* To increase awareness of the extent to which these processes are rooted in mainstream Anglo-American culture

To complete this assignment successfully you should go the Georgetown University Child Development Center, National Center for Cultural Competence to complete their self-assessment. This is for your information only, do not email me the results of your self-assessment.

Promoting Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Services and Supports to Children with Special Health Needs and their Families

OPTIONAL: Each week I'll give you a link to a disability-specific website. This is FYI if you are interested in building a disability-related resource file. The postings will be sites I have found, or sites that students have forwarded to me. Inclusion of the websites on this page does not imply the instructor's, or NAU's, endorsement of the content of the website.

Angelman Syndrome Foundation

Once you have completed this module you should:

Go on to VCC Activity

Go back to Topic 1

Email the instructor: Becky.Raabe@nau.edu