{"id":16140,"date":"2025-03-03T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/?p=16140"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:04:21","slug":"tip-a_moore_a-vaccaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/2025\/03\/03\/tip-a_moore_a-vaccaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory in Practice with Adam Moore and Annemarie Vaccaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moore, A. M., Vaccaro, A., Newman, B. M., Daly-Cano, M, &#038; Ruise, B. (2024). \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have to rely on them anymore\u201d: College Students with Disabilities on the Journey toward Self Advocacy. <a href=\"https:\/\/sc.edu\/about\/offices_and_divisions\/national_resource_center\/publications\/search\/details.php?id=2683\">The Journal of The First-Year Experience &#038; Students in Transition, 36(1), 93-112<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using data from a grounded theory study with 59 college students with disabilities, this article documents the complex process of developing self-advocacy during the transition from K\u201312 to post-secondary school settings. This article draws on rich student narratives to illuminate the nuanced self-advocacy processes that college students with disabilities adopted as they transitioned from extensive K\u201312 school-based and familial supports to more independent higher education contexts. Our findings point to evolving relationships students had with their parents\/caregivers as they transitioned into college. The process of learning to self-advocate was also shaped by bureaucratic collegiate contexts that required students to develop new levels of self-awareness, assertiveness, and understanding of their legal rights regarding access to collegiate accommodations and resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application in Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disabled college students often learn how to self-advocate during their K-12<br \/>\nexperiences, but changes in legal protections during college make that process<br \/>\nnuanced. Educators in higher education and K-12 settings can help support disabled students as meaningful allies.<\/p>\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-quote-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-quote  \"><div class=\"cl-quote-image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1572\/2025-3-Moore_Adam.jpg)\" title=\"2025-3-Moore_Adam\"><\/div><blockquote>\u201cUnderstanding the lived experiences of disabled college students as they learn to self-advocate in inhospitable PK\u201316 educational settings provides invaluable information for educators to do better and be better at supporting students and serving as allies.\u201d<\/blockquote><cite>Adam Moore<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Understanding the lived experiences of disabled college students as they learn to self-advocate in inhospitable PK\u201316 educational settings provides invaluable information for educators to do better and be better at supporting students and serving as allies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4629,"featured_media":16526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[153,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theory-in-practice","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16563,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions\/16563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}