Teaching Self-Determination to Students With Disabilities: Basic Skills for Successful Transition

by Michael L. Wehmeyer, Martin Agran, Carolyn Hughes

This ready-to-use book is packed with instructional methods that help you teach the specific skills students in transition need for a more satisfactory, self-directed life--skills like
- decision making
- problem solving
- goal setting
- assertiveness
You'll appreciate the variety of skill-teaching options, listed objectives, key terms for easy review, and case example demonstrations of how to resolve problems. With the hands-on exercises in this book, you can fulfill IDEA requirements, promote autonomous behavior, increase students' feelings of empowerment, reinforce the learning and practice of self-realization, and encourage students to recognize their own preferences. Use this practical book to motivate and prepare students in transition

384 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

About the author

Michael L. Wehmeyer, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former Director, Beach Center on Disability and Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Kansas. He has edited or authored 50 books and almost 500 scholarly articles and book chapters on topics related to special education, understanding intellectual disability, eugenics, and self-determination. He is a Fellow and past-president of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.