Autism and Self-Advocacy: Building Independence Through Self-Management and Self-Monitoring

Empowering students to understand and communicate their needs is an essential step toward building independence and long-term success. Looking for ways to help students with autism develop self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-advocacy skills? In this course, Dr. Danielle Abbott guides educators through practical strategies for teaching self-management and self-monitoring systems that encourage students to take ownership of their learning and behavior. Participants will explore approaches for reducing challenging behaviors, supporting executive functioning needs, and strengthening student voice. By the end of this course, educators will walk away with practical tools and strategies to help students advocate for themselves, monitor progress, and build lasting independence.This is course six of six in the series titled "Supporting Students with Autism: Building Independence, Engagement and Success."

Identify characteristics of self-advocacy, self-management, and self-monitoring.Explain the relationship between self-advocacy and student independence.Implement self-management and self-monitoring strategies with students.Examine student needs to determine appropriate self-advocacy supports.Assess the effectiveness of self-monitoring systems in supporting behavior and independence.Design a self-monitoring system that supports a student's executive functioning, behavior, or self-advocacy goals.