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Building Self-Management and Self-Advocacy Skills in Students with Sickle Cell Disease: Communicating Health Needs in the School Setting
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Donna J. Romack – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a lifelong chronic medical condition diagnosed through screening at birth. Complications of SCD can significantly burden affected children as they learn to manage their health needs. This study sought to investigate the perceived obstacles that may hinder children with SCD from receiving the necessary support and…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Chronic Illness, Barriers, Children
Cocreating a Strength-Based Behavioral Intervention Plan with Twice-Exceptional Students: A Youth Participatory Action Research Approach
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Garrett, Kristy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Twice-exceptional students are dually identified as academically gifted and talented and learning or medically disabled. These students face greater challenges to success in school and often have social and emotional issues that require accommodations and supports beyond those available in the general classroom. These students may not be receiving…
Descriptors: Gifted Disabled, Barriers, Social Emotional Learning, Student Characteristics
The Effects of Function-Based Self-Advocacy Training on the Problem Behavior, Replacement Behavior, and Self-Advocacy Skills of Students with or at Risk for EBD in General Education Settings
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Owens, Tosha Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Students with emotional and/or behavioral disabilities (EBD) experience some of the greatest challenges among students with disabilities (Kern, Hilt-Panahon, & Sokol, 2009). These students with EBD need access to behavioral support throughout the entire academic setting in order to make progress (Gable et al., 2012), yet few actually receive…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Training, Behavior Problems, At Risk Students
The Impact of a Community-Based College Access Program at a Midwestern Institution
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Gonzaga Reed, Ryan Ronald – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Low-income, first-generation, urban students are typically underprepared academically for college-level course work and lack knowledge, which most non-first-generation students possess (Ward, Siegel, & Davenport, 2012). Success in higher education depends on students effectively navigating and transitioning into an institution (Pike & Kuh,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Readiness, First Generation College Students, Low Income Groups
Increasing Effective Self-Advocacy Skills in Elementary Age Children with Physical Disabilities
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Avant, Mary Jane Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
For students with physical and health disabilities, the development of self-advocacy skills is critical to their future success. Characteristics that may inhibit the development of self-advocacy skills in this population include reliance on others for assistance across multiple areas requiring physical abilities, deficits in communication skills,…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Elementary School Students, Physical Disabilities, Student Behavior
A Self-Advocacy Training Program for Students with Disabilities: Adult Outcomes and Advocacy Involvement One to Six Years after Participation
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Roberts, Eric Landon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Texas Statewide Youth Leadership Forum (TXYLF) provides self-advocacy training to high school youths with disabilities. TXYLF is an enhanced version of the Youth Leadership Forum (YLF) that is comprised of an initial five day training, a nine month support phase, regional YLFs, and the opportunity for participants to return to the five day…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Training, Youth Programs, Disabilities