The Importance of Self-Advocacy in Society

McGovern, Kieran. "Advocacy and Why it's Important." National Kids As Self Advocates. N.d. Web. 8
            March 2011.


           Kieran McGovern expresses the need for self-advocacy among people of any age, gender, or mental/physical ability.  She promotes the use of self-advocacy for the many ways that it revolutionizes modern society.  Self-advocacy has had a major outbreak in the nation recently, and society insists on pursuing it even more.  With it's affect on the way people accomplish simple tasks (such as asking a question in class), get noticed, and generally live a more freedom-filled life, self-advocacy is creeping into schools and other facilities nationwide...making changes for the good!  McGovern examples the issue of a "person with a disability" living on their own; without the use of self-advocacy, that person wouldn't be able to function as well as the rest of society.