The level of self-advocacy skills in Asian American parents of young children with developmental disabilities was assessed. The relationship of self-advocacy skills with social support and with disability-based discrimination was investigated. Correlates of self-advocacy skills were explored. Asian American parents of young children with developmental disabilities in this study scored a significantly lower level of assertiveness and other self-advocacy skills than did their
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