Teaching Self-Determination to Students With Disabilities

Abstract

This article describes results of a literature review of articles addressing self-determination published in 24 journals between 1995 and 2002. The purposes of the study were to (a) identify professional journals most likely to contain articles on self-determination useful to teachers, and (b) categorize the articles to help teachers locate information related to the instructional needs of their students. Results indicated that the majority of articles published on self-determination were located in four research-oriented or disability-specific journals. Few articles were published in practitioner-oriented journals or provided information to teachers regarding educational practices to help students acquire the core component skills of self-determination. Implications for teaching self-determination to students with disabilities are provided.