What is disability awareness?
Understanding your disability, your rights, and any accommodations or supports you may need to contribute to your success. Ideally, disability awareness…
- Allows you to know more about your disability and disability rights.
- Makes you feel positive and proud about your abilities and needs.
- Is promoted in classrooms, workshops, youth groups, conferences, and conversations by teachers, doctors, and advocates.
Disability awareness will…
- Increase your ability to speak up for what you need to make decisions about your own future.
- Help you to support the disability rights movement.