ADA or Nay?
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
Known as the "father of the ADA," this Iowa-born senator was a primary sponsor of the legislation.
Who is Tom Harkin
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?
This deaf-blind author and activist became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Who is Helen Keller?
In 2025, Grinnell alumni and students launched this affinity group to build community among disabled alumni.
What is the Alumni Disability Alliance (ADA)
This ADA title generally applies to businesses and nonprofits that serve the public, such as restaurants, private colleges, hotels, and theaters.
What is Title III
In 1977 disability activists occupied a federal building in this city for 26 days to pressure the government to implement regulations for Section 504
What is San Francisco
A major disability-rights trend involves expanding accessibility requirements beyond physical spaces to include this environment.
What is the digital environment (websites, apps, online services)?
This design framework encourages instructors to create courses that work for the widest variety of learners from the start.
What is Universal Design for Learning
What is the name of the newly formed Disability Employee Resource Group at Grinnell College?
What is ERGOnomic?
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.
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?
For some SSI recipients, this life event can trigger a reduction in benefits because of a policy known as the "_____ penalty."
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?
This campus building, opened in 1885, is the former location of the office of Disability Resources.
What is Goodnow?
This US President signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into Law
Who is George H. W. Bush.
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
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
According to national data, the largest category of disability reported by college students falls within this broad area?
What is mental health?
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.
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
This disability rights leader highlighted the intersections of race and disability and helped secure support for the 504 Sit-In.
Who is Brad Lomax?
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?
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!
A standalone Office of Disability Resources at Grinnell College was formed in this year.
What is 2015?