ADA or Nay?
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100
Under disability law, these changes or supports help qualified students with disabilities access educational programs without fundamentally altering essential requirements.
What is reasonable accommodation?
100
Known as the "father of the ADA," this Iowa-born senator was a primary sponsor of the legislation.
Who is Tom Harkin?
100
This federal agency assumed control of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in June 2026 following its relocation from the Department of Education.
What is Health and Human Services?
100
This deaf-blind author and activist became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Who is Helen Keller?
100
In academic year 2025-2026 what percentage of Grinnell College students had one or more approved accommodations?
What is 26%?
100
Approximately how many lawsuits were filed against colleges and universities in 2025 over inaccessible digital content and web platforms?
What is 5,200?
Will accept answers between 5,000-5,500
200
This landmark law, signed in 1990, prohibits disability discrimination in employment, government services, and public accommodations.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA
200
This Berkeley student became known as the father of the Independent Living Movement after fighting for the right to attend college and live independently.
Who is Ed Roberts?
200
Videos on social media, streaming services, and news websites increasingly include this accessibility feature that displays spoken words as text on-screen.
What are closed captions?
200
This percentage of U.S. undergraduates report having a disability, making disability one of the largest identity groups on college campuses.
What is 21% or 1 in 5?
200
In 2025, Grinnell alumni and students launched this affinity group to build community among disabled alumni.
What is the Alumni Disability Alliance (ADA)
200
This settlement with a major public university system became a national model for requiring captioning and accessibility of online course content, websites, and instructional media.
What is US Berkeley Digital Accessibility Settlement?
300
This 1973 law was the first U.S. civil rights law to prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities.
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, specifically Section 504.
300
Known as the “Mother of the Disability Rights Movement,” this activist co-founded the World Institute on Disability, helped lead the independent living movement, and advocated for the rights of people with disabilities for decades
Who is Judith Heumann?
300
For some SSI recipients, this life event can trigger a reduction in benefits because of a policy known as the "_____ penalty."
What is marriage?
300
According to national data, the largest category of disability reported by college students falls within this broad area?
What is mental health?
300
This campus building, opened in 1885, is the former location of the office of Disability Resources.
What is Goodnow?
300
This landmark disability rights case held that assumptions about how patients might react to a doctor's disability were not a valid basis for denying admission to a medical residency program.
What is Pushkin v. Regents of the University of Colorado?
400
This US President signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into Law
Who is George H. W. Bush.
400
Before the ADA became law, disability activists dramatically abandoned wheelchairs and crawled up the steps of the U.S. Capitol in this famous protest.
What is the Capital Crawl?
400
Generative AI has become a major topic in disability circles because it may improve access to information through automatic captioning, image descriptions, and other forms of this technology.
What is assistive technology?
400
This Vermont college, founded in 1978, was the first accredited U.S. college created specifically for students with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning disabilities.
What is Landmark College?
400
This Grinnell alumna, a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy, based her debut novel Where You See Yourself in part on her own experiences seeking accommodations and planning for college.
Who is Claire Forrest?
400
This case is frequently cited for requiring higher education institutions to provide evidence, rather than assumptions, when claiming an accommodation would fundamentally alter a program.
What is Guckenberger v Boston University?
500
This Supreme Court case led Congress to broaden disability protections through the ADA Amendments Act by rejecting a narrow interpretation of disability.
What is Sutton v. United Airlines
500
This disability rights leader highlighted the intersections of race and disability and helped secure support for the 504 Sit-In.
Who is Brad Lomax?
500
Many states have moved to phase out this practice, allowed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which permits certain employers to pay workers with disabilities below minimum wage.
What is subminimum wage.
**Iowa is not one of the states that has made this change
500
In 1988, students at Gallaudet University engaged in a campaign and series of protests related to the appointment of a new president. The title of this campaign shares its name with the ultimate outcome of the presidential search.
What is Deaf President Now!?
500
A standalone Office of Disability Resources at Grinnell College was formed in this year.
What is 2015?
500
Frances Davis, an applicant to a nursing program, was at the center of this Supreme Court decision that shaped the concepts of essential requirements and fundamental alteration in disability law.
What is Southestern Community College v. Davis?