Module 3, Topic 2, Web

DIS 499/599: Module 3: Topic 2, Web Activity

Module 3: Assessing Needs and Determining Supports

Topic 2: Formal and Informal Needs Assessments and Effective Supports

Week 8: 3/3 - 3/10

Web Activity

Objectives:

* To identify the range of supports needed by families and provided to families

* To identify self-advocacy strategies families and individuals with disabilities use to get the services they need

To complete this assignment successfully, you should:

1. Read the following articles.

2. Complete the written assignment for 10 points.

3. The assignment is due by midnight, Sunday, March 12th.

Web Activity:

Go to the Beach Center on Families and Disability and read the following Family Support Research Factsheets (http://www.beachcenter.org/frames.php3?id=48&category=Family). You'll see a search engine text box at this location. Type in the following titles to retrieve the articles.

1. How to Tell People What You Want

2. What You Should Know About the Impact of Exceptionality on the Family

3. How to Renew Family Energy Through Respite Care

Create a situation that an individual with a disability or family would face. Suggest five (5) self-advocacy strategies that could be used by the individual or family to advocate for the support or services that would help them address the need or crisis. Email your assignment to Becky.Raabe@nau.edu

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.

Human Growth Foundation

Once you have completed this activity you should:

Go on to VCC Activity

Go back to Topic 2

Email instructor: Becky.Raabe@nau.edu