What is the Youth Leadership Forum?
The Youth Leadership Forum (YLF) for High School Students with Disabilities is a unique career leadership-training program for Washington State’s high school juniors and seniors with disabilities. Students serve as delegates from their communities at this six-day, five-night event, held in the summer at a college campus.
Is There a Cost to Attend the Forum?
NO! The commitment of the YLF volunteers and sponsors is to enable youth with disabilities to grow personally, socially and academically, and to fulfill their potential in their work and other aspects of their lives.
To Find Out More. . .
Contact Debbie Himes at dhimes@esd.wa.gov or 360.486.5894.
There are many excellent publications available on line through the Washington State Office of the Superintendent, Special Education Section
http://www.k12.wa.us/SpecialEd/publications.aspx
The Family Village is a global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. The community includes informational resources on specific diagnoses, communication connections, adaptive products and technology, adaptive recreational activities, education, worship, health issues, disability-related media and literature, and much, much more!
Proof-positive that anyone can do what they want regardless of what others might describe as disability.
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The following website shows many famous people who have (or had) disabilities.
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
The 411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities is designed for youth and adults working with them to learn about disability disclosure. This workbook helps young people make informed decisions about whether or not to disclose their disability and understand how that decision may impact their education, employment, and social lives. Based on the premise that disclosure is a very personal decision, the Workbook helps young people think about and practice disclosing their disability.
The workbook does not tell a young person what to do. Rather, it helps them make informed decisions about disclosing their disability, decisions that will affect their educational, employment, and social lives.
Download “The 411 on Disability Disclosure” workbook in PDF or Word formats
Tyler is a typical high school student who happens to have cerebral palsy and some other challenges. He has taken on a mission to educate the world about Ability Awareness. He believes that what a person, any person, CAN do is much more important than what he/she can’t. The people in Tyler’s life who have seen this and practiced Ability Awareness have made all the difference in the world to him.
His mission started as an Eagle Scout Project and has grown to a dream.
Visit the I’m Tyler web site.
This piece of writing is well-known to the disability advocacy community, and encourages equity and respect.
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