How People with Developmental Disabilities can become advocates and leaders It’s Developmental Disability Awareness Month, and today we’re jumping into one of the most important topics in our movement: self‑advocacy. Self‑advocacy is when a person with a developmental disability uses their lived experience to speak up, lead, and make change. Sometimes that advocacy is personal — talking with a boss, a teacher, or a service provider. Sometimes it’s public — testifying at the state legislature, bu

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