Disability Awareness
This law, passed in 1990, prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
This is the name of the student group that advocates for disability rights across all CUNY campuses.
What is the CUNY Coalition for Students with Disabilities (CCSD)?
This phrase describes the pride people feel in their disabled identity.
What is disability pride?
Each CUNY campus has this office to provide accommodations and support.
What is the Office of Accessibility or Disability Services Office?
This blind musician is known for songs like “Superstition” and “Isn’t She Lovely.”
Who is Stevie Wonder?
The disability rights slogan "Nothing about us without us" means this.
What is that people with disabilities should be involved in decisions that affect them?
This accommodation ensures that Deaf or hard-of-hearing students can participate in class.
What is sign language interpreting or CART captioning?
This type of animal is trained to help people with vision loss navigate the world
What is a guide dog (or service dog)?
This CUNY career support program specifically helps students with disabilities.
What is CUNY LEADS?
This deaf actor won an Oscar for their role in CODA
Who is Troy Kotsur?
Neurodivergent people may have one of these cognitive profiles, such as ADHD or autism.
What is a neurodevelopmental condition (or neurodivergence)?
This term refers to changes made to environments to ensure inclusion of people with disabilities.
What are reasonable accommodations?
This growing field of study explores disability as a social, cultural, and political identity.
What is Disability Studies?
CCSD holds this annual gathering for students to connect and learn about advocacy.
What is the CCSD Leadership Retreat?
This physicist used a speech device after being diagnosed with ALS.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
This symbol is widely recognized to indicate accessible facilities.
What is the International Symbol of Access (wheelchair symbol)?
This type of speech allows students to speak directly to lawmakers about their experiences.
What is public testimony (or legislative testimony)?
This concept argues that disability is not just medical but also shaped by barriers in society.
What is the social model of disability?
CCSD works with this student body, which governs CUNY-wide student affairs.
What is the University Student Senate (USS)?
This activist co-founded ADAPT and fought for wheelchair-accessible transportation
Who is Judith Heumann?
This month is nationally recognized as Disability Employment Awareness Month.
What is October?
This term means creating environments usable by all people, without needing adaptations.
What is universal design?
This annual month celebrates disabled identity and visibility, often with parades, art, and storytelling.
What is Disability Pride Month?
This event hosted by CDS & CCSD celebrates inclusion with food and community each summer.
What is the ADA BBQ?
This American disability activist was the first Deafblind person to earn a college degree.
Who is Helen Keller?