It is important to remember that children with disabilities, like all children, have the right to be active participants in decisions that affect them. Some key considerations for child-rights programming using a child-centred approach are:

1. Consider the best interests of the child;
2. Listen to children with disabilities;
3. Challenge your own and others’ assumptions about the needs and perspectives of children with disabilities;
4. Do not make assumptions about what children with disabilities can and cannot do;
5. Do not make assumptions about the needs and perspectives of children with disabilities. Ask them;
6. Seek to develop the child’s abilities and competencies;
7. Consider the child as a whole and the whole range of his or her development and needs;
8. Analyze the situation of the child as a whole in the broader context of family and community; and
9. See children with disabilities as “social actors” who are involved in decision-making.