Types of Disabilities
This learning disability causes children to sometimes forget homework, fidget in their seat, act without thinking and get distracted easily.
What is ADD or ADHD?
The color of a handicap sign.
What is a blue?
Physically disabled people may have to use a wheelchair OR this medical aid to help them get around.
What is "walker"?
This former U.S. Vice President and current Presidential Nominee has struggled his entire life with a stuttering disability.
Who is Joe Biden?
This disability makes it difficult to see words in books or on the board.
What is visually impaired OR blind?
This makes it possible for a person with a physical challenge get from place to place.
What is a wheelchair?
A system of touch reading and writing for blind persons in which raised dots represent the letters of the alphabet.
What is Braille?
This politician needed to use a wheelchair to get around while in office.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
A condition in the brain where a person has a tendency to have recurring seizures (their body shakes uncontrollably).
What is Epilepsy?
This makes it possible for one with a hearing disability to communicate with others.
What is sign language?
Sometimes babies are born too early and are called this word (starts with an 'P').
What is "Premature"?
This person did poorly in school and was labeled slow. He later went on to create one of the most visited places on earth.
Who is Walt Disney?
This disability at times makes it difficult to communicate with others, have muscle tightness and few emotional connections.
What is autism?
Council Bluffs is fortunate to have this school so close. It's the only school in the state to provide services for student's with this kind of disability.
What is Iowa School for the Deaf?
Both kids and adults with disabilities might have the opportunity to participate in this annual athletic program throughout the states and nationally.
What is the 'Special Olympics'?
She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a four year Bachelor's degree. She devoted her entire life to helping others with disabilities.
Who is Helen Keller?
A genetic disorder which occurs when someone is born with an extra chromosome in their DNA. (Hint: The letters are DS.)
What is Down Syndrome
According to the current health information provided by the CDC (Center for Disease and Control), this many adults in America live with a disability. (Hint...it's 1 in ___ adults.)
What is 1 in 4 adults?
ADHD
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
This person who invented the telephone, had a learning disability.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?