Self-Advocacy
Helps you to get necessary accommodations in public or private settings including education, employment, housing, transportation, and taxation issues.
Legal Advocacy
Helps get laws passed that benefit certain groups of people or all people.
For instance, the National Association for the Deaf (NAD), Self Help for Hard of Hearing (SHHH), state agencies serving deaf and hard of hearing, and the Association of Late Deafened Adults (ALDA) are service-oriented organizations that provide advocacy for individuals. They also advocate and propose changes in federal and state laws for all deaf and hard of hearing people.
System Advocacy
Is to change policies and rules of how services are being provided for the benefit of a whole group of people or for yourself.