About the Book
How can you empower students with invisible disabilities to manage their challenges, accept and advocate for themselves, and reach their goals and dreams? This guidebook has inspiring and informative answers. Told with the authentic voices of adults with hidden disabilities, this encouraging, eye-opening book will help you guide students on the Path to Disability Pride and support their success in the classroom and community. Personal stories blend with powerful strategies as the authors share reflections on their experience with disability—and offer up practical teaching tips and interventions based on the latest research. An essential resource for educators, families, and self-advocates, this book will help students with non-visible disabilities dare to dream big and unlock their full potential.DISCOVER HOW TO
promote disability pride within students, schools, and communities
teach critical life skills, including social-emotional, executive function, reading, and coping skills
reduce the stigma of hidden disabilities
develop mentoring programs that connect students with advice and encouragement
assist college students as they navigate the challenges of campus life and classes
prepare young adults to launch fulfilling careers and responsible, self-determined adult lives
help students develop authentic and meaningful relationships with others
support students with a range of hidden disabilities, including ADHD, learning disabilities, autism, and emotional and behavioral disturbance
PRACTICAL MATERIALS: A helpful "Path to Disability Pride" framework that readers can use to track their own path to pride or help advocate for someone else's; ready-to-use Teaching Tips for the classroom; candid stories from and interviews with people who have hidden disabilities.
Table of Contents:
About the Blank Forms
About the Authors
About the Contributor
Foreword Dan Habib
Preface
Acknowledgments
Why Do So Many People with Hidden Disabilities Struggle?
The Path to Disability Pride: Assisting Students as They Dare to Dream
Mentoring: Guiding Students Toward Disability Pride
Transition: Planning for College and Careers
College Life: Valuable Life Lessons in the Classroom and on Campus
Daring for the Dream Career: Living a Life of Value
The Last Transition: Disability Pride and Quality Relationships
with Bill Bauer
References
Index
About the Author :
Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Ph.D., is Program Director for Transition Services at The Ohio State University Nisonger Center. She has extensive experience designing and directing projects that improve the transition from high school to college and careers with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, and numerous state and local agencies. Dr. Vreeburg Izzo has developed educational curricula for students with disabilities; conducted numerous trainings, focus groups, and interviews with teachers and students; managed the development of web sites, videos, and other dissemination products; and published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles, books, or book chapters on disability and transition issues. She received the Mary E. Switzer Fellow from the National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation Research in 1996. As Past President of the Division of Career Development and Transition, she provides leadership to national, state, and regional committees to improve the quality of education and transition services. She also is a mother, wife, grant writer, and a person with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). She believes that people with hidden disabilities are more likely to succeed when they can exercise self-determination in choosing their path to college and careers. In the pages to come, learn more about Margo's life with ADHD and her personal and professional mission to help all people with hidden disabilities lead meaningful lives. For more information on how to contact Margo, visit www.MargoIzzoPhD.com. LeDerick Horne, labeled as neurologically impaired in third grade, defies any and all labels. He is a dynamic spoken-word poet, a tireless advocate for all people with disabilities, an inspiring motivational speaker, a bridge builder between learners and leaders across the United States and around the word, and an African American husband and father who serves as a role model for all races, genders, and generations. LeDerick is the grandson of one of New Jersey's most prominent civil rights leaders and uses his gift for spoken-word poetry as the gateway to larger discussions on equal opportunity, pride, selfdetermination, and hope for people with disabilities. His workshops, keynote speeches, and performances reach thousands of students, teachers, legislators, policy makers, business leaders, and service providers each year. He regularly addresses an array of academic, government, social, and business groups and has had appearances at the White House, the United Nations, Harvard University, the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, and the Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Alabama State Departments of Education. His work addresses the challenges of all disabilities, uniting the efforts of diverse groups in order to achieve substantive, systemic change. Go to www.lederick.com to learn more about LeDerick and his work.
