Disability Advocacy History
Ed Roberts
This written document details a student's special education instruction, supports, and services, and must include transition planning by at least age 16.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
This concept means speaking up for yourself, making your own choices, and expressing your needs and goals to others.
What is self-advocacy?
True or False
You can bring a service animal with you to BYU-I.
True
This monthly financial plan ensures your expenses don't exceed your income and helps you save for major independence goals.
What is a budget?
Signed into law on July 26, 1990, this landmark civil rights legislation prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
These types of goals must be included in the transition IEP and describe what the student will achieve after graduating high school in areas like work, education, and independent living.
What are postsecondary goals?
This fundamental disability rights slogan highlights that people with disabilities should be actively involved in creating policies and making decisions that affect their lives.
What is "Nothing About Us Without Us"?
The ASO provides digital PDFs, book scanning, large print, and Braille.
Are what kind of Resource.
Alternative Text Options
For a student without a car, this major retail center provides a popular, free shuttle bus that makes loops around Rexburg.
What is Walmart?
On March 12, 1990, over 1,000 activists abandoned their wheelchairs and mobility aids to literally crawl up the 83 stone steps of the U.S. Capitol to demand the passage of the ADA.
What is the Capitol Crawl?
This term refers to agencies outside of the school system—such as Vocational Rehabilitation—that can help fund or provide services during and after high school.
What are community agencies (or adult service agencies)?
This legal arrangement allows an individual to choose trusted supporters to help them understand choices and make decisions, serving as an alternative to full guardianship.
What is Supported Decision-Making (SDM)?
A dedicated Autism Mentoring Program, peer mentorship options, and support for mental health concerns.
Are what kind of resource.
Specialized Mentoring
This 3-digit number acts like a financial "report card," telling landlords and banks how reliable you are at paying back borrowed money.
What is a credit score?
This 1999 Supreme Court decision ruled that the unjustified institutionalization of persons with disabilities is a form of unlawful discrimination under the ADA.
What is Olmstead v. L.C.?
This official process occurs when a student reaches the age of majority (usually 18) and legal decision-making rights officially shift from the parents to the student.
What is the transfer of rights?
This psychological concept refers to a person’s ability to control their own life, make things happen, and act as the primary causal agent in their choices.
What is self-determination?
Participation in the Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) to help students with disabilities connect with employers.
Are what kind of Resource
Career Assistance
Before getting your keys, you and a landlord sign this legally binding contract outlining rules, rent prices, and move-out dates.
What is a lease (or rental agreement)?
Passed in 1973, this is widely considered the first federal civil rights law protecting people with disabilities, strictly forbidding discrimination in programs run by federal agencies and federal funding recipients.
What is the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504)?
This referral is made to help students qualify for adult services after high school
What is the transfer of rights?
To get accommodations in college or the workplace, a person must do this action, which means formally sharing information about their disability, as institutions will not automatically know.
What is self-disclosure?
The Reading Center in the McKay Library (Room 290) features ADA-compliant hardware and software like JAWS, Kurzweil 3000, and flatbed scanners.
Are what kind of resources.
Assistive Technology
In the medical world, this 4-letter acronym describes the federal privacy law that prevents doctors from sharing your medical info with anyone—including your parents—once you turn 18.
What is HIPAA?