# Presentation: 401380

## Disclosure Self-AdvocacySelf-DeterminationTransition Preparation 

***Job Corps Health & Wellness Conference, ***
***San Francisco Region, May 10-12, 2006***
**Presenter:**
**Nancie Payne, M.S.**
**President, Payne & Associates, Inc.**
- _[www.payneandassociates.com](http://www.payneandassociates.com/)_

## WELCOME...

**What a Great Afternoon**
**Warm-up **

## Accomplishments Today...

**STUDENT**

## TRANSITION

**Result of a change**
**State change puts one into**
**Not automatic**
***Change***** is external **
***Transition***** is internal **

## TRANSITION

**Transition takes longer**
**Transition happens much more slowly than change**
**Transition is what happens when we support the processes involved in change...**

## Successful Transition...

**Self-Determination = Goal Oriented**
- Aware of strengths & weaknesses
- Able to evaluate work & learning environments
- Make informed decisions & solve problems
**Self-Advocacy = Reframing**
- Effectively communicate, convey, & negotiate
- Assert interests, desires, needs, & rights
- Making informed decisions
- Taking responsibility for decisions

## Self-Determination & Self-Advocacy

** ****Self-Reliance**
** ****Independence**
** ****Self-Sufficiency**
** ****Self-Esteem**
** ****Motivation**
** ****Disclosure**

***Self-Knowledge***

***KNOW SELF***

## Success = Control(Ginsberg, Gerber, Reiff, 1994)

## EFFECTS OF LD

***“******I’m Smart?  Yea, Right...Then Why Can’t I Succeed?”***

## EFFECTS OF LD

-  **Far Reaching**
** ****Manifestations Different for Each**
**Positive & Negative Experiences**
** ****Success**** through...**
**Self-Knowledge**
**Support**

## MASLOW AT WORK

**SUPPORT**

## Postsecondary Failures

**94% Dropout Rate **
**	****Vocational, Technical**
**	****& Postsecondary Among Learners who have LD**
**	****(RSA 1998)**

## Reasons for Failures

***Brainstorm & ***
***	******List Reasons...***

## Reasons for Failures

**Weak Critical Thinking Skills**
**Poor Self-Advocacy Skills**
**Low Self-Esteem**
**Poor Self-Determination Skills**
**Negative Messages**
**Lack of Self-Knowledge**
**Feelings of Hopelessness**
**Avoidance of Success**
**Lack of Understanding of Disability**
**Inability to Seek Resources**
**Underdeveloped Problem Solving Skills**

## THE FRAMEWORK

**ESSENTIAL SKILLS**

## THE SELF-KNOWLEDGE ESSENTIALS

**Strengths & Interests**
**Learning Styles**
**Multiple Intelligences**
**Critical & Higher       Order Thinking Skills**
**Values & Personal Needs**
**Disability & Limitations**
**Accommodations**

## STRENGTHS & INTERESTS

**Help to recognize talents**
**Search until you find the motivators**
**Don’t push your own ideas**
**Explore in positive ways**
**Keep a list of things to investigate**
**Maintain structure **
**Promote follow-through**

## LEARNING STYLES

***Visual***

***Auditory***

***Tactile***

***Motor***

**NOT THE ONLY WAY!**

## MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

## FACILITATING CRITICAL THINKING

**Affirm Self-Worth**
**Listen Attentively**
**Show Support of Efforts**
**Reflect & Mirror Ideas                                & Actions**
**Motivate Person to                               Think Critically**
**Stephen Brookfield, Developing Critical Thinkers**

## FACILITATING CRITICAL THINKING

**Regularly Evaluate Progress**
**Help Create Networks**
**Be Critical Parents & Support Folks**
**Model Critical Thinking**
**Stephen Brookfield, Developing Critical Thinkers**

## Personal Needs

**Figure Them Out!!**
**What Trips Trigger**
**What Works Best**
**Down Time**
**Chunking**
**Frustration Tolerance **

## DISABILITY & LIMITATIONS

**Adequately describe or speak to the Disability when & where appropriate**
**Must understand that the limitations are the result of the disability**
**Accommodations are essential**

## Accommodations

**A change to the existing environment, structure or protocol that allows the use and further development, where possible, of alternative, intact physical methods or cognitive channels in order to compensate for the limitation created by the person’s disability.**

## Accommodations

**Elementary School**
**High School****	****	****	****	**
**GED**
**Postsecondary **
**Training**
**Entrance testing**
**Certification testing**
**Pre-employment testing**

## DISCLOSURE

***RANDOM THOUGHTS ***
**Postsecondary & Training**
**Employment & Training Programs**
**Core Services**
** ****Intensive & Training Services**
**Pre-Employment Processes**
**During Employment Offers**
**After Employment Accepted**
**Probationary Period**

## Factors Leading to Success

**Work Tolerance & Endurance**
**Work Skills Above Entry & Low Level**
**Job-related Academic Skills**
**Disability Awareness**
**Self-esteem & Self-confidence**
**Medical, Psychological & Psychiatric**
**Coordination & Co-investigation**

## Factors Leading to Success

**Mobility & Transportation**
**Verbal Communication**
**Non-Verbal Communication**
**Learning Styles & Job Culture**
**Knowledge & Exposure of Employment Potentials**
**Job Interests & Passions**
**Secondary Completion**

## THE “OTHER” FACTOR

**Reframe limitations using accommodations**
**Remediate weaknesses after limitations have been accommodated successfully**

## THE “OTHER” FACTOR

***The framework must be ***
***What I Can do ***
***	******	******– ******not – ***
***What I can’t do***

## Critical Transition Elements

***Employment Success Factors***
***Desires – Goals***
***Self-Knowledge***
***Self-Determination***
***Persistence***
***Learned Creativity & Accommodations***
***Supports***
***Reframing & Control***

## Remember...

**Knowledge is Power**
**Sharing Knowledge creates positive power**
**Providing Support fosters motivation, initiative & independence promoting success**

## THANK YOU!

**Those Who See **
**the Invisible...**
**Can do the**
**Impossible**

## Payne & Associates, Inc. 

**Nancie Payne, M.S.**
**205 Lilly Road NE, Bldg B, Ste A**
**Olympia, Washington  98506**
**360-491-7600**
- _[payneassoc@att.net](mailto:payneassoc@att.net)_
***Mission***
***Competent, effective disability-related services designed to Maximize Human Potential & Create Productive Environments***