Empowerment Spotlight: Building advocacy skills for families and students with disabilities — from rightquestion.org
Shove says the Right Question Institute has helped her help families advocate for themselves. She uses the Question Formulation Technique to teach adults and children to ask better questions and know when to use open-ended questions, which encourage longer, more detailed responses, and when to use close-ended ones, which tend to elicit short responses such as “yes” or “no.”
“It’s using that Question Formulation Technique to guide the discussion and obtain the information we all will use to make decisions and a plan for the child,” adds Shove, a former elementary school teacher who started doing advocacy work after discovering how tough it was to obtain special education services for her own children in the early 2000s.
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We recently interviewed Shove to learn more about how she uses the Question Formulation Technique — and how families’ interactions with school officials can change after they master it.
Also see:
- Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions
Teach all students how to ask their own questions using the Question Formulation Technique. The QFT activates students’ curiosity and critical thinking, and can help transform classrooms into more joyful learning spaces. - Become a Catalyst for Agency and Empowerment