Where to Learn More

Here are some websites to help you put Self-Advocacy in Action:

Working Together Toolbox (a PDD Edmonton website in plain words with ways to help you have good meetings)

www.pddtoolbox.org

Plan Your Own Project (a set of pages in plain words to help you do a good job on your project by K. K. Biersdorff Consulting)

• What is Research?
• Steps to Plan a Project
• The Project Plan
• Project Planning Form
• How to Do Projects as a Team: Participatory Action Research
• What is Fair Treatment in Projects?
• How to Look up Information
• How to Make Up Good Questions
• How to Watch and Listen
• How to Do a Test
• Try It Out and See If It Works
• How to Make Sense of Your Results
• Say Where You Read It
• How to Get Money to Do Projects

My Voice My Turn (a public education project by self-advocates)

www.proudtobedisabled.com

Picture this … film festival

www.ptff.org

Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (a neat group in the U.S.A.

www.sabeusa.org

Advocating Change Together (ACT) (a site about self-advocacy in the U.S.A.

www.selfadvocacy.com

Speaking for Ourselves (a group of self-advocates in the U.S.A.)

www.speaking.org

Persons with Disabilities Online (a Canadian website for people with disabilities)

www.pwd-online.ca

Active Living Alliance for Canadians with Disabilities (lots of stuff about health)

www.ala.ca

Find your MLA (gives you different ways to find out who represents you in the Alberta legislature)

http://alberta.ca/home/mla_contacts.cfm