Independent Living
Movement
Movement
What 4 Counties does WRILC Cover
Ashtabula, Mahoning, Columbiana, Trumbull
Americans with Disabilities Act is commonly called this.
What is the ADA?
More than 1000 protesters went to DC to show support for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Many of them abandoned their wheelchairs at this event.
What is the Capitol Crawl?
Harry Potter character who has dyspraxia.
Who is Daniel Radcliffe?
From 1975, starring Jack Nicholson, this is one of the most well known movies about mental illness and one of the most acclaimed movies of all time!
What is “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest“?
a worldwide movement of disabled people working for equal opportunities, self-determination, and self-respect.
What is Independent Living Movement?
President that signed the ADA into law
Who is George H.W. Bush
The disability rights "sit-in" that occupied federal buildings from April 5 - April 28, 1977
What s the "504 sit-in"?
United States President with polio and was a wheelchair user .
Who is Frankiln D. Roosevelt?
Patty Duke stars in this 1962 movie about Helen Keller
What is "The Miracle Worker"?
A consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential private non-profit agency that ioperates within a local community by individuals with disabilities, and provides independent living services.
What is a CIL / Center for Independent Living?
a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act or the ADA
This required that all public schools receiving federal dollars provide access to an education for all children with physical and mental disabilities.
What is "The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975"?
In 1776 a man with cerebral palsy, is one of the first signers of the Declaration of Independence. He is known for saying “My hands may tremble, my heart does not.”
Who is Stephen Hopkins?
2005 HBO movie about President Franklin Roosevelt.
What is "Warm Springs"?
“We’ve tried cripples before and it didn’t work,”
What the "The University of California at Berkeley told Ed Roberts when he initially applied.
According to the ADA this is any modification or adjustment to a job or the work environment that will enable an applicant or employee with a disability to participate in the application process or to perform essential job functions.
What is "reasonable accommodation”?
In June of 2017 individuals with disabilities were arrested and removed from their wheelchairs while protesting for this.
What is saving medicaid?
A theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and eminent scientist with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
The Story of Christy Brown, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, is the story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy.
What is "My Left Foot"?
Founder of the Independent Living Movement
Who is Ed Roberts?
Employment, State & Local Government,
Public Accommodations, and Telecommunications.
What are the Titles included in the ADA?
A federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies.
What is the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973"?
The Mathematician/Physicist who had a learning disability and did not speak until age 3.
Who is Albert Einstein?
Adapted from the 2007 memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking.
What is "The Theory of Everything"?