Self Advocacy Activities - Social Skills for Middle and High School

Target self advocacy skills in realistic social scenarios with your older students! Your students will get plenty of practice advocating for themselves in various scenarios using these SEL task cards. Included are self advocacy scenarios and scripts to practice!

This resource combines script work as well as open ended discussions prompted by scenario task cards.

Many of our middle and high school students struggle to stand up for themselves. It will usually go one of two ways - they will either approach things with a little too much aggression, or they will be passive and let others take advantage of them.

This resource will help you to teach your students about self advocacy and how to practice it in a respectful, yet firm way. It will also give your students opportunities to role play and practice these skills.

SAVE TIME SESSION PLANNING!

These task cards will help to take therapy session planning and brainstorming OUT of your hands and should last you several therapy sessions. When mixed with other task card decks or therapy activities, this deck alone should last months for a weekly student!!

A QUICK AND EASY "GO TO" FOR YOUR TOOL BAG!

Very low prep (just print and go, or even quicker - just read from your laptop/tablet!).

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

- 6x self advocacy scripts to read from and practice using

- 36x scenarios related to teens where self advocacy is required

- Coloured AND black and white versions included.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Regular education teachers, special education teachers, SLPs, OTs and other support professionals could all benefit from using these task cards with their students!These cards are specifically designed for middle and high school aged students.

HOW DO I USE THEM?

*These task cards can be used for an individual, a small group or a class*

Individual ideas:

o Side activity during a board game or other therapy activity!

o A “break” between therapy activities if the other activities are worksheet-heavy or targeting another skill!

o Use these cards as a therapy activity itself (I absolutely do!)

o “Warm up cards” for the start of each session.

o Quick assessment of skills.

o Homework.

o Use them as conversation prompts/starters.

You can even use them to simultaneously target additional skills like expressive language, speech, reading comprehension/decoding.

Small group and/or classroom ideas:

o Put the task cards up in different parts of the room (or outside!) and have students walk around with the room with their answer sheets and clip boards.

o Have students get into pairs and talk about their answers and thoughts together.

o Use a card or two each morning as part of a guided class discussion.

o Use the cards as a guide for an open ended quiz. Use the flashcards to ask the class the questions, and get the students to write their answers on a sheet to hand up.

Want more resources to work on functional social and problem solving life skills? Love using REAL LIFE scenarios to teach?

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- Interpreting Perspectives

- Growth Mindset 4 part lesson

- Justifying opinions (and accepting others' opinions)

- Is that your business?

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