SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE
ASSOCIATE
DEGREE CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE
Department: Disabled Student Programs and Services
Subject Area and Course Number: DSPS 44
Course Title: Self-Advocacy
Discipline: Special Education
Units: One
Repeatability: 4 and according to Disability (Title V):
*Section 56029 of Subchapter 1 of
Chapter 7 of Division 6 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations is added to read:
56029. Special Class Course Repeatability.
Repetition
of special classes is subject to the provisions of Sections 55761–63 and
58161 of this division. However, districts are authorized to permit additional
repetitions of special classes to provide an accommodation to a student's
educational limitations pursuant to state and federal nondiscrimination laws.
Districts shall develop policies and procedures providing for repetition under
the following circumstances:
(a) When continuing success of
the student in other general and/or special classes is dependent on additional
repetitions of a specific class;
(b) When additional repetitions
of a specific special class are essential to completing a student's preparation
for enrollment into other regular or special classes; or
(c) When the student has a
student educational contract which involves a goal other than completion of the
special class in question and repetition of the course will further the
achievement of that goal.
NOTE: Authority cited:
Sections 67312, 70901, and 84850, Education Code. Reference: Sections 67310–12 and 84850, Education
Code; 29 U.S.C. Section 794.
Catalog Course Description: A course designed for students with disabilities who are
enrolled in mainstream college classes.
Students learn the skills required to be successful self-advocates such
as knowledge of the law; knowledge of individual strengths, weaknesses, and
coping mechanisms; communication and negotiation strategies; strategies to
build self-concept; knowledge and utilization of resources.
Description for Schedule of
Classes: A course designed for students with
disabilities who are enrolled in mainstream college classes. Students learn the skills required to
be successful self-advocates.
Lecture Hours per Week: One hour per week = total of 18 hours
Laboratory Hours per Week: None
Plus Hours: None
Prerequisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Skills Advisories: None
Course Advisories: None
Limitation on Enrollment: None
Course Objectives: The students will acquire the
following skills and apply them to non-DSPS SBCC courses.
1. Advocacy: Explain individual advocacy,
self-advocacy and systems advocacy.
2. Legal Rights: Increase knowledge of civil rights,
identify their legal rights and identify their responsibilities under the law.
3. Strengths and Weaknesses: Identify their talents, disabilities,
and functional limitations.
4. Coping Mechanisms: Formulate new patterns of discovering creative solutions, apply
compensatory strategies for disabilities and identify reasonable accommodations
for disabilities.
5. Self Concept: Formulate strategies that develop
self-esteem, self-efficacy and self-determination.
6. Personal Support: Identify their resources, classify
appropriate mentors and role models and apply skills in utilizing services.
7. Employment: Identify the process to develop
realistic career choices, analyze when to disclose their disabilities and
identify how to arrange for on-the-job accommodations.
8. Goal Orientation: Establish short-term life goals,
develop an action plan for their goals and evaluate the characteristics that
result in the pursuit of excellence, persistence, and resilience.
9. Communication:
a. Identify and evaluate
the skills needed to communicate issues relating to disability verification,
explanation of functional limitations, and requests for accommodations.
b. Identify and evaluate the
skills needed to negotiate appropriate access to programs or services;
reasonable accommodations; or adjustments on the basis of disability.
Course Content and Scope: Each of the nine topics outlined under course objectives
will be presented in two class
sessions.
Method of Instruction: Team teaching will be utilized for this course. Each topic will be coordinated by a
different disabilities specialist.
The DSPS Coordinator will be the instructor on record.
The course will include lecture,
large and small group discussion, panel presentations, role plays, and computer
assisted instruction.
Required Assignments: There will be three assignments for this course:
1. Development of an individual
self-advocacy portfolio containing disability verification; articles or other information
about disability; explanation of functional limitations; accountability for
requests for accommodations; and the use of strategies.
2. Analytic review of one library
article on the topic of self-advocacy, civil rights, or federal law as it
relates to disability. A copy of
this article and the review will be included in portfolio.
3. Demonstration of self-advocacy
skills with SBCC instructor.
Student will submit an instructor evaluation.
Methods of Evaluation: Methods of evaluation include quizzes; individual and group
presentations; faculty/employer
evaluation of demonstrated self-advocacy .
Appropriate Texts and Supplies:
Copy
of Americans with Disabilities Act.
Instructor
designed handouts
Copies
of articles
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