Welcome

Welcome to the Self-Advocate Leadership Network. SALN is a partnership between self-advocates across the country and staff at the Human Services Research Institute.

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Our purpose is to help people with developmental disabilities to become strong self-advocates. Self-advocates are people with disabilities who speak up for themselves and others. They can speak up with spoken words, sign language, language boards and in other ways unique to the individual. Overall, we hope that people with disabilities can life the life they want in the community with the supports they need.

To help people succeed we:

• Facilitate meetings of people with developmental disabilities and provide training on self-advocacy and self-determination;



• Help self-advocacy organizations to get stronger and achieve larger goals related to systems change; and



• Prepare various teaching materials on self-advocacy, including toolkits on many important topics.

These pages provide more information about what we do, how to contact us, and how to purchase materials on self-advocacy.

Thank you for visiting!