Types of Disabilities
Accesiblity Devices
Institutions and Movements
Milestones in Disability Rights
Historical Figures
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People with this disability will use this alternative language form.
What is deafness?
100
This simple device, used for walking support, was essential for individuals with mobility impairments.
What is a cane?
100
This term refers to the process by which people with disabilities are pushed to the edge of society, leading to reduced access to resources and opportunities.
What is marginalization?
100
This war caused society to see the need for charitable support programs to assist soldiers with disabilities.
What is the Civil War?
100
This French educator, blinded at a young age, developed the tactile reading system now used worldwide by individuals with visual impairments.
Who is Louise Braille?
200
People with this type of disability may have limited or no ability to walk.
What is a physical disability?
200
This system of raised dots has allowed people with blindness to read and write.
What is Braille?
200
These were facilities intended to care for people with mental disabilities, but were often over-crowded and mistreated the patients.
What are institutions/asylums?
200
While conditions were harsh in asylums, they showed improvement from these tragic prior options.
What are jails and poorhouses?
200
This 19th-century advocate fought for better treatment of individuals with mental illnesses in the U.S. and helped establish asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
300
This term, used historically, described individuals with mental health conditions.
What is madness or insanity?
300
Developed in 18th-century Europe, this device allowed people with mobility challenges to move.
What is a wheelchair?
300
By the late 19th century, this social movement advocated for the segregation and sterilization of individuals deemed "unfit."
What is the Eugenics movement?
300
This revolution highlighted the need for compensation for workers who became disabled in the workplace.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
This composer is still widely known today despite being deaf when completing his greatest works.
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?
400
This group of disabilities includes disorders such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
What are psychiatric disabilities?
400
Ancient Greeks used this communication system during battle and then it was later used by monks in silent orders, before becoming a communication system for sensory disabilities.
What is Sign Language?
400
This was used to sway public opinion towards negative actions towards people with disabilities.
What is propaganda?
400
This Massachusetts school was the first in the U.S. to offer formal education to blind students in 1829.
What is the Perkin's School for the Blind?
400
This famous Latina artist was in a bus accident that caused her to have a mobility impairment for the rest of her life.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
500
Ancient societies often attributed disabilities to this supernatural cause.
What is religious intervention?
500
These devices were crafted from materials like wood and iron to replace missing limbs often lost in battle in the 1500s.
What are prosthetic limbs?
500
This controversial 1927 Supreme Court case upheld the sterilization of individuals with disabilities, marking a dark chapter in U.S. history.
What is Buck v. Bell?
500
This ancient code, dating back to Babylon, included specific rules about compensation for causing disabilities.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
500
In 1817, the first American school for the deaf was opened by this pair of educators.
Who is Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc?