Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities: A Path to Pride and Success

How can you empower students with invisible disabilities to manage their challenges, accept and advocate for themselves, and reach their goals and dreams? This guidebook has inspiring and informative answers. Told with the authentic voices of adults with hidden disabilities, this encouraging, eye-opening book will help you guide students on the Path to Disability Pride and support their success in the classroom and community. Personal stories blend with powerful strategies as the authors share reflections on their experience with disability—and offer up practical teaching tips and interventions based on the latest research. An essential resource for educators, families, and self-advocates, this book will help students with non-visible disabilities dare to dream big and unlock their full potential.DISCOVER HOW TOpromote disability pride within students, schools, and communitiesteach critical life skills, including social-emotional, executive function, reading, and coping skillsreduce the stigma of hidden disabilitiesdevelop mentoring programs that connect students with advice and encouragementassist college students as they navigate the challenges of campus life and classesprepare young adults to launch fulfilling careers and responsible, self-determined adult liveshelp students develop authentic and meaningful relationships with otherssupport students with a range of hidden disabilities, including ADHD, learning disabilities, autism, and emotional and behavioral disturbancePRACTICAL MATERIALS: A helpful "Path to Disability Pride" framework that readers can use to track their own path to pride or help advocate for someone else's; ready-to-use Teaching Tips for the classroom; candid stories from and interviews with people who have hidden disabilities. Read more