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My Self Awareness Project

Join me on my journey to learn more about myself and my mild intellectual disability. Discover my abilities, strengths, and how my disability affects my education, living arrangements, and future work. Gain inspiration from famous individuals who have overcome similar challenges. Find resources and strategies to help me succeed. Let's embrace self-awareness and create a bright future together!

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My Self Awareness Project

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  1. My Self Awareness Project

  2. Introduction • Purpose: to learn more about myself and my disability • Abilities and Strengths: Organized Sociable Self-Motivated • Disability: ID-Mild • Future: Graduate, work a job, live on my own

  3. My Abilities • Organized Who: John Bryant (Principal at Glenn Marlow) How: Get Good Grades Future: Get and Maintain a Job • Sociable Who: Ty Pennington How: I have a lot of friends Future: Interview well, Work with people

  4. My Abilities • Self-Motivated Who: Helen Keller How: I do well in school Future: I will get a good job and meet my goals

  5. My Disability ID-Mild (Intellectual Disability Mild) Who: Sylvester Stallone Albert Einstein Dwight D. Eisenhower

  6. My Disability Common Characteristics • sit up, crawl, or walk later than other children; • learn to talk later, or have trouble speaking, • find it hard to remember things, • not understand how to pay for things, • have trouble understanding social rules, • have trouble seeing the consequences of their actions, • have trouble solving problems, and/or • have trouble thinking logically.

  7. My Disability Affects • How: Have trouble in school Difficulty making friends Hard time understanding how to use money • What: Need to know how it affects me Need to ask for accommodations that can help me

  8. My DisabilityAffects • Future: Have difficulty with applications Have difficulty in interviews Making a budget, paying bills Drivers’ license • What: Ask for help Ask for accommodations

  9. My Future Education My Goal: To get training as a child care worker Step 1: Graduate from high school Step 2: Enroll in certification course at Community College Step 3: Save money for course

  10. My Future Living My Goal: Live on my own Step 1: Get license Step 2: Get a job Step 3: Save money for down payment and for rent

  11. My Future Work My Goal: To be a child care worker Step 1: Gain experience in child care Step 2: Pass certification exam Step 3: Apply and interview for child care jobs

  12. Any Questions?

  13. Works Cited http://blog.ncpad.org/2011/03/15/inspirational-famous-people-with-developmental-disabilities-part-1/ http://nichcy.org/disability/specific/

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