{"id":98830,"date":"2026-07-06T18:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=98830"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:46:51","slug":"empowerment-spotlight-building-advocacy-skills-for-families-and-students-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/07\/06\/empowerment-spotlight-building-advocacy-skills-for-families-and-students-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowerment Spotlight: Building advocacy skills for families and students with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightquestion.org\/blog\/empowerment-spotlight-building-advocacy-skills-for-families-and-students-with-disabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Empowerment Spotlight: Building advocacy skills for families and students with disabilities<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from rightquestion.org<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Shove says the Right Question Institute has helped her help families advocate for themselves. She uses the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rightquestion.org\/what-is-the-qft\/\">Question Formulation Technique<\/a>\u00a0to 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 \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s 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,\u201d 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.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWe recently interviewed Shove to learn more about how she uses the Question Formulation Technique \u2014 and how families\u2019 interactions with school officials can change after they master it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rightquestion.org\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTeach all students how to ask their own questions using the Question Formulation Technique. The QFT activates students\u2019 curiosity and critical thinking, and can help transform classrooms into more joyful learning spaces.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rightquestion.org\/empowerment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Become a Catalyst for Agency and Empowerment<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empowerment Spotlight: Building advocacy skills for families and students with disabilities\u00a0&#8212; from rightquestion.org Shove says the Right Question Institute has helped her help families advocate for themselves. She uses the\u00a0Question Formulation Technique\u00a0to teach adults and children to ask better questions and know when to use open-ended questions, which encourage longer, more detailed responses, and when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,433,199,382,560,855,66,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-communications","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-parents-guardians","category-skills","category-student-related","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98831,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98830\/revisions\/98831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}