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Being a Healthy Adult: How to Advocate for Your Health and Health Care

Center:

NJ-The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2012

Contact Information:

Kathy Roberson
[email protected]
732-235-9317

Product Description:

Guide written to help young adults with disabilities learn how to become effective self-advocates for their own health and health care. This guide will also be very helpful for adults with disabilities of all ages who want to take a more active role in advocating for their health care. The guide includes activities, worksheets, and tips for communicating with health care providers, keeping track of personal health information, and figuring out what supports will assist each individual with making the health-related choices that are right for him or her.

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Product/Publication Type(s):

Reports and monographs

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals

Alternative Format:

Audio (cassette, audio file, etc.), Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting), Language other than English

To Obtain Copies (URL or Email):

http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/boggscenter/

COVID-19 Related Data:

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