ADA Basics
This is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life
What is The Americans with disabilities Act
From helping someone understand their benefits, preparing youth for adulthood, or navigating employment, this OMO department covers a little bit of everything.
What is SIL?
A consumer wants to learn how to make a monthly budget and manage household expenses
What is Independent Living Skills Training?
The ADA defines this as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.
What is a disability?
When was the ADA passed
July 26, 1990
This department provides personal care services for individuals who need assistance completing everyday activities in their own homes.
What is In-Home?
Someone calls your office looking for accessible transportation, but your CIL doesn't provide transportation directly. You help them locate another community resource
What is Information & Referral?
Employment protections for qualified individuals with disabilities are covered under this title of the ADA.
What is Title I?
A person must be substantially limited in this to be considered "disabled" under the law.
What is a Major life activity?
A consumer wants to learn about equipment or devices that could make everyday tasks easier and more accessible.
What is SIL Assistive Technology?
A consumer wants support speaking up about an accessibility barrier affecting them personally
What is Individual Advocacy
The ADA requires this to accessible.
What are Public Accomodations?
True or False? The definition of disability under the ADA includes both mental and physical conditions.
What is True?
In this program, the consumer has greater control over choosing, hiring, and directing the attendant who provides their personal care.
What is CDS / Consumer Directed Services?
Rather than focusing on “fixing” a person's disability, the Independent Living philosophy focuses on removing these from the person's environment and community
What are barriers?
What anniversary of the ADA are we celebrating this year?
What is the 36th?
What does the American with disabilities Act require employers to do?
What is provide reasonable accommodations?
A consumer receives services through the Department of Mental Health and needs support related specifically to those services.
What is the DMH department/program?
This phrase describes the idea that people with disabilities have firsthand knowledge of disability and should have a central role in decisions about services and policies affecting them.
What is “Nothing About Us Without Us”?
These services help students with disabilities prepare for life after high school, including work, education, and independent living
What are "Transition" services?
President that signed the ADA into law.
Who is George H.W. Bush?