TBI Glossary Advocacy Skills Advocacy Defined. Advocacy is a type of problem solving designed to protect personal rights, and to insure a dignified existence.
Legal advocacy is what lawyers are paid to do, and legislative advocacy is designed to change laws.
While there are many types of advocacy, the focus of this section will be self-advocacy. Self-advocacy skills can help you avoid or solve problems with family and loved ones, doctors and lawyers, employers, associates, and friends. Self-advocacy skills can help you obtain reasonable and necessary accommodations in both public and private settings. They can be useful in matters of public entitlements, such as education, housing, employment, transportation and taxation. In these pages you will learn the basics of self-advocacy.