Self Advocacy eliminates learning deficiencies

I have grown up with a severe hearing loss and I have learned that self advocating is an essential aspect of my life. To me, self advocacy is the action of speaking up about my needs to learn in the best way possible and ensure that all my needs are met.
In order to learn, I need to sit in the front of classrooms and see a teachers face while they speak. If they do not do these things, I cannot learn as well as others. But, teachers will never know they are not tending to my needs and I am unable to hear if I never speak up.
It is incredibly important for me to have self advocacy skills in order to succeed in school and in life. Otherwise, my personal needs will never be met and I will be stuck behind everyone else.
I take classes ranging from standard to IB and each class has a distinct lack of advocacy. Friends and peers rarely speak up and ask for help, even if they are struggling. While it is not an expectation that others will always advocate on behalf of a struggling student, I do notice this because I always make an effort to speak up when I need help.
Most people have the urge to do well in school, but if they are struggling, they do not want to show any signs of struggle or trouble. They want to keep the appearance that they are doing well and on the track to success.
This could be a logical result of to the extreme pressure that my peers put themselves under. Due to the area we live in, there is a high standard set for high school students to do well and get into prestigious college.
Often, teachers will even come up to someone they know is not doing well in class, but even then, the student will not speak up about their struggles. However, not all teachers approach struggling individuals in their classes which can lead to further issues.
Back in elementary school, teachers constantly kept up with each student to ensure they were on a path to success. But, in high school, teachers tend to rely on students to ask questions and write the path of success on their own. It is now the responsibility of the student to get all the resources needed to thrive in school.
If teachers continued to have that will to individually push their students, hesitant students may be more open to help. When teachers take my needed into consideration, I am always successful.
It is a teacher’s job to help their students succeed to the best of their ability and they are a valuable resource to aid in academic advancement. Without them the students wouldn’t be learning what they need to fully adapt to the future ahead of them.
All it takes is the want to succeed and the will to seek help. A combination of self advocacy and resources from teachers is needed to ensure anyone’s success.