Famous Folks With Different Abilities
The famous cyclist who won the Tour de France multiple times and is a cancer survivor.
Lance Armstrong
This makes available a free and appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services for those children.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Two disabilities existing within one person.
Comorbidity?
The year was the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed.
1990.
The famous female actress who starred in Ghost, Sister Act, The Color Purple and has a learning disability.
Whoopi Goldberg
An appropriate and free education with instruction in a general education setting is known as this.
Inclusion.
This disability makes it difficult to read, as many letters appear mixed or out of order.
Dyslexia?
ADA was modeled after this act from 1964.
The Civil Rights Act.
An American female surfer lost her left arm to a shark attack in 2003 and later won the ESPY Award for the Best Comeback Athlete of the Year in 2004.
Bethany Hamilton.
This ensures that all children with disabilities have this available to them as both free and appropriate.
A free appropriate public education.
The acronym is associated with a lack of focus and/or a great amount of physical energy.
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
Prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in the mainstream of American life to enjoy employment opportunities, to purchase goods and services, and to participate in State and local government programs and services.
The Americans with Disabilities Act.
The famous blind musician signed with Motown Records at the age of 12 and continues to perform today.
Stevie Wonder
According to UNESCO, approximately what percentage of children with disabilities in low-income countries do not attend school?
90%
Neurobiology, core cognitive processes, behavioral factors, and environmental factors.
The different variables that influence academic outcomes in children with learning disabilities.
The first disability civil rights law to be enacted in the United States.
504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
The brilliant atomic physicist, most famous for his Theory of Relativity, may have had Asperger’s syndrome and dyslexia.
Albert Einstein
Who was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, becoming a renowned advocate for people with disabilities?
Helen Keller
The ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization.
Neuroplasticity.
The IQ test was originally designed to help identify children with learning disabilities, but that has often been used to isolate people with disabilities.
Stanford-Binet IQ test-