self-advocate

Deep in the heart of suburban Maryland, where soccer coaches ban helicopter parents from practice because "the boys need to learn to self-advocate" and parents fret on neighborhood e-mail bulletin boards that their gifted and talented children might not be quite gifted and talented enough, you will find Lydia Sullivan snickering at her own people.

Montgomery County mom takes a poke at her peeps J. Freedom duLac 2010

Deep in the heart of suburban Maryland, where soccer coaches ban helicopter parents from practice because "the boys need to learn to self-advocate" and parents fret on neighborhood e-mail bulletin boards that their gifted and talented children might not be quite gifted and talented enough, you will find Lydia Sullivan snickering at her own people.

Montgomery County mom takes a poke at her peeps J. Freedom duLac 2010

On the health front, if students have been receiving support at home for ADD/HD, learning disabilities or any illness, they will need to self-advocate and consistently follow through with those supports and medication in order to be successful.

Maureen Price Tillman: How Are High School Grads Adjusting to College Life? Maureen Price Tillman 2010

On the health front, if students have been receiving support at home for ADD/HD, learning disabilities or any illness, they will need to self-advocate and consistently follow through with those supports and medication in order to be successful.

Maureen Price Tillman: How Are High School Grads Adjusting to College Life? Maureen Price Tillman 2010

Deep in the heart of suburban Maryland, where soccer coaches ban helicopter parents from practice because "the boys need to learn to self-advocate" and parents fret on neighborhood e-mail bulletin boards that their gifted and talented children might not be quite gifted and talented enough, you will find Lydia Sullivan snickering at her own people.

Montgomery County mom takes a poke at her peeps J. Freedom duLac 2010

Deep in the heart of suburban Maryland, where soccer coaches ban helicopter parents from practice because "the boys need to learn to self-advocate" and parents fret on neighborhood e-mail bulletin boards that their gifted and talented children might not be quite gifted and talented enough, you will find Lydia Sullivan snickering at her own people.

Montgomery County mom takes a poke at her peeps J. Freedom duLac 2010

On the health front, if students have been receiving support at home for ADD/HD, learning disabilities or any illness, they will need to self-advocate and consistently follow through with those supports and medication in order to be successful.

Maureen Price Tillman: How Are High School Grads Adjusting to College Life? Maureen Price Tillman 2010

Ari Ne'eman, president of the Autism Self-Advocacy Network, said, "It seems to send a message that we aren't fully present in our own bodies," and, indeed, it was at Ne'eman's urging that the parents 'group hastily withdrew the billboards, which Ne'eman acknowledged as "indicative of the growing recognition of the need for the autism parent community to pay attention to the concerns of the autistic self-advocate community."

William Stillman: Autism: The Last Human Rights Movement 2009

The teachers taught us to be independent learners and to self-advocate when we needed help, which is a life-skill that I now use every day.

Chicken Soup for The Soul: Extraordinary Teens Jack Canfield 2009

The teachers taught us to be independent learners and to self-advocate when we needed help, which is a life-skill that I now use every day.

Chicken Soup for The Soul: Extraordinary Teens Jack Canfield 2009