Famous Folks With Different Abilities
The famous cyclist who won the Tour de France multiple times and is a cancer survivor.
Who is Lance Armstrong
This law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Two disabilities existing within one person.
What is comorbidity?
An amazing young lady diagnosed ASD at the age of 14.
Who is my daughter, Genna Varao?
The year was the Americans with Disabilities Act signed.
What is 1990?
The famous female actress who starred in Ghost, Sister Act, The Color Purple and has a learning disability.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg
An appropriate and free education with instruction in general education setting known as this.
What is inclusion?
This disability makes it difficult to read, as many letters appear mixed or out of order.
What is dyslexia?
Genna says ASD greatly affects all 5 of these.
What are the 5 senses.
ADA was modeled afters this act from 1964.
What is 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.
Who is Bethany Hamilton?
IDEA was written ensure that all children with disabilities have this available to them as both free and appropriate.
What is a free appropriate public education?
The acronym associated with a lack of focus and/or a great amount of physical energy.
What is ADHD?
With the diagnosis of ASD, we also discover her ability to learn was normal, also called this.
What is IQ?
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
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
The famous blind musician signed with Motown Records at the age of 12 and continues to perform today.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
In this year, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142), now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
What is 1975?
Neurobiology, core cognitive processes, behavioral factors, and environmental factors.
What are different variables that influence academic outcomes in children with learning disabilities?
Genna's legal document that assured proper modifications to her school work.
Wha is an IEP?
The first disability civil rights law to be enacted in the United States.
What is 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.
Who was Albert Einstein?
Federal aid guaranteed to the state to support early intervention of children with disabilities.
What are formula grants?
The ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization.
What is neuroplasticity?
Genna sometimes self-soothes by repeatedly rubbing the eraser end of a pencil. Name this behavior in association with ASD.
What is stimming?
The IQ test was originally designed to help identify children with learning disabilities, but that has often been used to isolate people with disabilities.
What is the Stanford-Binet IQ test?