Famous People
This politician needed to use a wheelchair to get around while in office.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This learning disability causes children to sometimes forget homework, fidget in their seat, act without thinking and get distracted easily.
What is ADHD?
True or false: Over a billion people live with some form of disability.
What is True?
ADHD
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
The better term instead of saying a retarded or slow person.
What is person with a cognitive delay?
American Singer/Songwriter, Actor and Record Producer with ADHD and OCD. Member of Mickey Mouse Club and a best-selling boy band.
Who is Justin Timberlake?
This disability makes it difficult to see words in books or on the board.
What is visually impaired?
True or False: People with disabilities always receive the necessary health care.
What is False? Half of disabled people cannot afford health care.
TBI
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
The better term instead of saying a person who has fits.
What is person who has a seizure disorder?
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 is characterized by mild to severe mental impairment, weak muscle tone and unique facial characteristics.
What is down syndrome?
This makes it possible for one with a hearing disability to communicate with others.
What is sign language?
MS
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
The better term instead of saying a healthy, normal person.
What is a person without disabilities?
This actor has to learn lines from listening to audiotapes because dyslexia makes reading difficult.
Who is Tom Cruise?
________ is when a person is short in stature because of their genes or a medical reason.
What is dwarfism?
This term refers to modifications that make the impossible possible.
What is accessibility?
CF
Cystic Fibrosis?
The better term instead of saying a handicapped person.
What is a person with disabilities?
This English athlete has OCD which distracts him from doing other things.
Who is David Beckham?
This disability is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior.
What is autism?
This term refers to tools specifically created, changed, or trained to allow more independence.
What are adaptation?
DCD
What is Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia, is a common disorder affecting fine and/or gross motor coordination in children and adults. (A type of Learning Disability)
The better term instead of saying an autistic person.
What is a person with autism?