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Rights and Responsibilities
If you have a disability, it doesn’t mean you don’t have rights. Your rights include:
- being respected and treated as a human being.
- the same rights as other people in your community.
- the right to have opportunities to pursue your learning and working goals and potential.
- the right to be involved in making decisions about your life.
Building your self-advocacy skills means growing your knowledge and awareness of your rights and responsibilities as a person with a disability. You will need to know how to access services and what services are available. You will need to know how to ask for help or express concern if you feel you have received unfair treatment because of your disability.
Practicing Your Self-Advocacy Skills
Learning how to be a great self-advocate takes practice. The following activities will let you practice and share what you have learned about self-advocacy.