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Self-Determination: The Meaningful Outcome

Self-Determination: The Meaningful Outcome. Self-Determination. What is SD? What are the traits of a SD Person? Why is SD Important?. Self-Determination. Self-Determined People Will. Make choices and set goals based upon an understanding of their interests, skills, and limits

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Self-Determination: The Meaningful Outcome

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  1. Self-Determination: The Meaningful Outcome

  2. Self-Determination • What is SD? • What are the traits of a SD Person? • Why is SD Important?

  3. Self-Determination Self-Determined People Will • Make choices and set goals based upon an understanding of their interests, skills, and limits • Express their goals to help build support • Establish a plan to attain their goal • Evaluate their plan • Adjust their goal or plan Martin & Huber Marshall, 1993

  4. Self-Determination Constructs • Self-awareness • Self-advocacy • Self-efficacy • Decision-making • Independent performance • Self-evaluation • Adjustment

  5. Motivational Impact Choice making appears to enhance motivation for individuals with severe disabilitiesBambara, Ager, & Koger (1994)

  6. Is This Choice?

  7. Or, is this choice?

  8. Goal Attainment • From an awareness of personal needs individuals will choose goals, then doggedly pursue them(Martin & Huber Marshall, 1993) • SD is a person’s ability to define and achieve goals from a base of knowing and valuing oneself(Field & Hoffman, 1994, 1995) • SD is the repeated use of skills necessary to act on the environment in order to attain goals that satisfy self-defined needs and interests (Mithaug, 1996)

  9. SD Is a By Product of Skills and Opportunities Skills opportunity

  10. Self-Determination Bits • SD is all important for individuals with disabilities • Attainment of SD is the crucial goal for people with disabilities • SD is an inherent right • Choices initiate SD

  11. Importance • Successful people are self-determined • SD Increases school outcomes • SD increases post-school outcomes

  12. Now, What do we do????

  13. Do We Sit and Wait Until Someone Is out Of School? No, we get started now! But How?

  14. Infuse SD Instructional Opportunities Into Secondary Education

  15. Step 1: Choosing Goals Based Upon Your Interests, Skills, and Limits

  16. Step 2: Student Participation in Educational Decision-Making

  17. Answer These Questions

  18. Step 3: Take Action - Planning, Evaluating, and Adjusting It’s fun to dream, but how do students make dreams happen?

  19. Where do I want to work after graduation? Where do I want to learn after graduation? Where do I want to live after graduation? What do I need to learn now to work where I want? What do I need to learn now to learn where I want? What do I need to learn now to live where I want? My Plan

  20. Collaborative Effort

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