Disability Basics
A disability that affects a person's ability to perform everyday activities may be described as a ______ disability.
What is a physical disability?
This learning disability primarily affects reading and decoding words.
What is dyslexia?
Autism is a developmental disability that can affect communication, social interaction, and this.
What is behavior/sensory processing?
A person who has significant difficulty seeing may have this type of disability.
What is a visual impairment?
Treating people with disabilities with dignity means avoiding this word often used to describe people as helpless.
What is "victim"?
This term describes difficulties with thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, or adaptive behavior.
What is an intellectual disability?
This disability can affect a person's ability to understand or use mathematics.
What is dyscalculia?
Someone who communicates without speech may use this type of communication system.
What is AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication)?
A person who has significant difficulty hearing may have this type of disability.
What is a hearing impairment?
When you change the environment or expectations so a person can participate, you are providing this.
What is an accommodation?
True or False: Not all disabilities are visible.
What is True?
Someone with dysgraphia may have difficulty with this.
What is writing?
True or False: Every autistic person has the same strengths and challenges.
What is False?
A wheelchair is best described as this—not something that "makes someone disabled."
What is a mobility/accessibility tool?
The best person to ask about what support a person with a disability needs is often this person.
Who is the person with the disability?
A disability that affects someone for their entire life is sometimes described as ______.
What is lifelong?
True or False: Having a learning disability means someone has low intelligence.
What is False?
Repeating sounds, movements, or words can be a form of self-regulation for some autistic people.
What is stimming?
Braille is primarily used by people with this type of disability.
What is a visual impairment/blindness?
Inclusion means more than simply being in the same room. It means having this.
What is meaningful participation/belonging?
This is the practice of making environments, information, and activities usable by as many people as possible.
What is accessibility?
Giving a student extra time on a test is an example of this type of support.
What is an accommodation?
Instead of asking, "Why won't they behave?" an inclusive approach asks this question.
What is "What support do they need?"
Lowering background noise, changing lighting, or providing headphones can help someone who experiences this.
What is sensory sensitivity/overload?
Rather than focusing only on what someone cannot do, an inclusive educator focuses on these.
What are strengths, abilities, interests, and supports?