Knowing My IEP & Self-Advocacy Activities

Needing ideas to help familiarize your students with their IEPs and the basics of Self-Advocacy? Look no further! Included in this set are 9 activities + 1 assessment to help your students begin to understand how their IEP works for them and how they can become an advocate for themselves. Activities included in this file:

*My Disability graphic organizer - Complete with your students to help them begin to understand how their disability makes them unique.

*My IEP Scavenger Hunt - Designed to get your students into their IEPs, looking for the most pertinent information.

*My Elevator Speech activity - An activity designed to help students design a quick commercial of sorts about themselves. It's a "pitch" in which students explain their disabilities to others as well as what accommodations they might need and what makes them just like everyone else.

*Accommodations and Modifications Sort - As students approach the age of participating in their IEPs, they'll need to understand the difference between Accommodations and Modifications in order to advocate for themselves effectively. These 20 cut-apart accommodation/modification examples will help expose students to common accommodations and modifications and give them an opportunity to practice distinguishing between the two.

*Self-Advocacy Role Play Cards - Put your students' advocacy skills to the test with these 24 scenario cards. Written for students with both physical and cognitive abilities, students will be faced with real-life scenarios and will be prompted to consider how they can problem solve and speak up to get what they need.

*Advocation in My School Day activity - Take your students through their school day and investigate where they may need help and who they can get it from in various settings from the school bus to the cafeteria, from the classroom to a field trip. Blank cards are included at the end to customize your own needs.

*Common Special Education Acronyms - A cheat sheet that's ready to print and go! Perfect for your students to reference in their IEP meetings or to place into a personalized IEP binder.

*A Plan for Meeting My Goals activity - The whole point of the IEP! Allow students to take control of their success by giving them this opportunity to brainstorm a plan of attack to meet their various IEP goals. A page with a header and a page without a header are included.

*Person-First Language activity - Any effective advocate knows the importance of using Person-First language. Familiarize your students with Person-First language by editing sentences that got it all wrong. Two sets of five sentences included.

*My IEP Rights Quiz - Do your students know enough about the IEP process to be able to advocate for themselves effectively? Do they know their rights as a student well enough to enforce them if someone else isn't? Assess their knowledge of the basics with this 10-question quiz.