John Schaffer
Susan Unok Marks, Northern Arizona University

The concepts of self-determination and self-advocacy have been a focus in the education of students with disabilities and many new curricula, guidelines, and materials have recently become available for educators. This article describes a project that involved individuals with intellectual disabilities in making a movie as a strategy for exploring and developing self-advocacy skills. A facilitator/ director worked with the individuals as they discussed movie ideas based on self-determination, while learning concepts and working on component skills such as self-advocacy and problem solving. The authors share what they learned during the project and provide ideas for educators to follow a similar model with their students.

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