Facts.
This term refers to a group of conditions that affect a person's physical, intellectual, and emotional development.
What are Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities or IDD?
This was one of the most important civil rights movements for individuals with disabilities.
What is Olmstead v. L.C. and E.C.
This term refers to discrimination or prejudice against individuals with disabilities, based on the belief that non-disabled people are superior.
What is Ablism.
The first disabled led advocacy groups?
What is disabled in action
What is one of the more difficult things Social Workers need to overcome when considering IDD in their future practices?
What is identifying biases
How much more likely are people with intellectual disabilities to die before age 50 than the general population
What is twice as likely
What year was the raised point alphabet finally integrated into the St. Louis school for the blind?
What is 1960
This term is public spaces, like public transportation, are made accessible to people with disabilities
What is accessibility
Which act altered the delivery of Mental Health services?
What is the community mental health act
One major barrier to inclusive education for students with IDD is the lack of these kinds of classrooms that integrate them fully with their peers.
What are inclusive classrooms.
One in how many children in the U.S. have a developmental disability?
What is 1 in 6.
Who founded the first school for the deaf in the U.S.?
Who is Thomas gallaudet
What is the mental age theory
What is the theory that suggests a person's cognitive ability is measurable by younger age groups
What was "Education for all Handicapped Children" renamed to?
What is "individuals with disabilities act"
This concept consists of actively listening to the needs and preferences of clients with disabilities and supporting their autonomy in decision-making
What is the Client-centered approach
What percentage of medical students reported that graduates are "not competent" to treat people with disabilities?
What is 56%
Over 60 activists in 1990 abandoned their wheelchairs and crawled up __ steps of the U.S. Capitol Building to demand the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
What is 83 steps.
This percentage of individuals with IDD have been employed at some point in their life, despite facing significant barriers.
What is 22.5%.
This major law, signed in 1990 and amended in 2008, provides protection and increased accessibility for individuals with disabilities.
What is the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA).
This type of plan is developed to ensure that students with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive individualized support and accommodations in school.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
This initiative, gaining momentum by 2024, aims to improve how medical schools educate future doctors about IDD.
What is the NICHE-MED Initiative.
This 1975 law ensures students with disabilities receive special education services, IEPs, and necessary accommodations.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are more than twice as likely to experience this, compared to the general population, often due to inadequate medical training and care.
What is premature death.
What is the month and day in 1990 that over 1,000 disability rights activists from 30 states protested at the U.S. Capitol to push for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
What is March 12, 1990.
What are the three key aspects to consider in an INDIRECT practice?
What are Policy Advocacy, Community Education, and Agency practices and policies