A How-to Guide for creating This is Me stories

This is Me: A Self-Advocacy Tool is a customized, electronic tool developed by a student with their teacher, speech language pathologist, and/or educational team. The tool uses a story creation application that is easy to program and contains information about the student’s strengths, interests, and preferences, as well as strategies and supports the student uses in the areas of communication, self-advocacy, executive function, and behavior. Each page of the story has a picture or video illustrating the strategy. This is Me stories are designed to be developed and shared by students with intellectual disabilities (ID) and autism spectrum disabilities (ASD) who also experience expressive, receptive, and/or pragmatic communication difficulties. We have developed a "how-to" guide for creating This is Me stories. Download now to get started!

For more than 55 years, Ivymount has created nationally recognized programs and partnerships for people with autism and special needs as well as their families.  The goal in all our programs is to help children, students, and young adults achieve their highest level of development and independence.  In addition to creating our own education and outreach programs, Ivymount forms partnerships with other organizations and researchers, often functioning as a training site, to ensure that our innovative and intensive approach is widely disseminated and influences the larger field of special education and support services.

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