Ensuring that supported individual is included in activities, making choices and making decisions in all aspects of their life.

In social services if a decision is made, the client must be informed about choices which he/she could make. Staff must make sure that information given to clients are adequate to their understanding.

This is often linked with neglect, but is about the regime of a service, which may be overly authoritarian, where routines are set for the benefit of the staff not those using the service. Thus limiting choice, opportunity and empowerment

Interactive teaching is a means of instructing whereby the teachers actively involve the students in their learning process by way of regular teacher-student interaction, student-student interaction, use of audio-visuals, and hands-on demonstrations. The students are constantly encouraged to be active participants.