The phrase "assert their needs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where individuals are expressing or declaring their requirements or desires clearly and confidently.
Example: "In order to foster a supportive environment, it is essential for team members to assert their needs during discussions."
Alternatives: "express their needs" or "state their needs".
Students with additional needs should carefully and properly assert their needs as necessary with others in the university environment.
71 Elderly cancer patients seemed reluctant to assert their needs to healthcare professionals, thereby decreasing the probability of those needs being met.
(female, 40, caring for 7-year-old niece) Staff who are not pleased with patients can act negatively towards them with relative impunity and patients have no power to assert their needs or dissatisfaction.
(Patient 6, stage 2 interview) It was apparent that the most assertive patients and families, articulate in English, and those with a good advocate were able to access services more effectively than those who were less able to assert their needs.
They help to build the social support necessary for people to develop confidence to explore these topics and assert their needs," said Helen Cahill, a former educator and Deputy Director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne, who with a Vietnamese doctor, Hoang Tu, Anh, developed the Creating Connections format.
Autistic people need to learn how to stand up for themselves, assert their needs, and say "no" when they don't want something.
But where people are aware of their loss of control over how they are seen by others, people of all ages will always assert their need for privacy in the strongest way".
Praise them when they exhibit good communication skills: asking for help, asserting their needs, setting boundaries, et cetera.
Autistic children may be afraid of asserting their needs, because they are used to being told that they are burdens.
Therefore they asserted their need to re-gain control over their body after pregnancy by increasing their physical activity and taking control of their diet.
At Place St. Pierre, beneath the hills of Port-au-Prince, a large group of children are asserting their need for a safe and protective environment in the aftermath of the 12 January earthquake here.
