✅ Quiz Answers

 

1. Speaking up for people with disabilities and making sure their rights are respected.

2. Examples: teaching about disability rights, working with groups, giving advice.

3. Stigma (negative attitudes).

4. Examples: sharing stories, connecting people to help, self-advocacy.

5. Listens, provides support, helps with feelings and solutions.

6. An experienced and trusted advisor or role model.

7. Helps people learn, make choices, and plan for life or work.

8. Helps set goals, build confidence, and take steps forward.

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People with Disabilities and Mental Health Conditions

• May need support to speak up for their rights.

• Can become self-advocates (speak for themselves).

• Can also receive support from professionals like advocates, counselors, mentors, and coaches.

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Advocates

• Speak up for people’s rights.

• Make sure laws, services, and opportunities are fair.

• Work with people with disabilities and mental health conditions.

• Can be professionals or people with lived experience.

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Counselors

• Provide a safe space to talk about feelings and worries.

• Help clients manage stress, anxiety, or depression.

• Work with people on coping skills and solutions.

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Mentors

• Share their experience and knowledge with others.

• Support mentees (the people they mentor).

• Act as role models.

• Help with choices, skills, and life plans.

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Coaches

• Help people set clear goals.

• Support coachees (the people they coach).

• Build confidence and self-awareness.

• Encourage people to take steps toward success.

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Clients, Mentees, and Coachees

• Clients work with counselors to improve their mental health.

• Mentees learn from mentors’ experience.

• Coachees set goals and learn life skills with a coach.

• All are active in their own growth and self-advocacy.

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📝 Quiz Questions

1. Who can be a self-advocate?

2. What does an advocate do?

3. Who provides a safe space to talk about feelings?

4. Who is the person supported in mentoring?

5. What is a coach’s main job?

6. Who works on mental health challenges like stress or anxiety?

7. What is the name for the person learning in coaching?

8. How can professionals and people with lived experience work together?