Disability Pride at MassBay
Students use this online tool to submit their accommodations to faculty, make testing appointments and schedule meetings with ARC staff.
What is Accommodate?
This reality tv show, highlights Autistic individuals as they navigate dating and relationships.
What is Love on the Spectrum?
This actor, best known for playing Spider Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has opened up about his dyslexia diagnosis at age seven and his struggles with addiction and social anxiety.
Who is Tom Holland?
This type of athletic team, created by the Special Olympics, includes individuals with and without intellectual disabilities.
What is a Unified Sports team?
This law was passed in 1990 to protect individuals with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
MassBay has this unified sports team.
What is basketball?
This Disney swimming buddy with short term memory loss helps her friend get home.
Who is Dory?
This 32nd president, best known for his New Deal policies, had polio and used a wheelchair.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
This international sporting event kicked off on March 6th in Italy to bring together top athletes with disabilities to compete for medals.
What are the Paralympics?
In 1829, this raised point alphabet was invented, which enabled blind individuals to read.
What is Braille?
This group, celebrating neurological diversity, became an official student club at MassBay in 2024.
What is the Neurodivergent Student Alliance (NSA)?
This 2025 Superbowl half-time rap artist often openly addresses his mental health struggles, including depression, anxiety, and trauma in his songs.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
This legendary musician, who has been blind since shortly after birth due to an eye disease called retinopathy of prematurity, became one of Motown’s most influential artists with hits like “Isn’t She Lovely” and “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.”
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This 23-time Olympic gold medalist used swimming to help manage his ADHD.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This date is recognized as World Down Syndrome Day.
What is March 21st?
This is the book MassBay is reading to celebrate Disability Pride Month.
What is Disability Visibility?
The 2021 Apple TV+ film CODA won Best Picture for its portrayal of a hearing daughter in a Deaf family. CODA is an acronym that stands for this.
What is Child of Deaf Adults?
This singer, who has depression and Tourette syndrome, wrote pop hit songs such as "Birds of a Feather," "Lovely," and "What Was I Made For?" which was featured in the Barbie movie.
Who is Billie Eilish?
This famous boxer, known to 'float like a butterfly and sting like a bee', was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 12.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Started in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, this sports organization gives individuals with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to compete worldwide.
What are the Special Olympics?
In 2022, MassBay established a chapter of this academic honor society aimed at celebrating individuals with disabilities.
What is Delta Alpha Pi?
This singer and actress, who starred in Barney & Friends as a child and Disney’s Camp Rock movies, has been vocal about their bipolar disorder diagnosis for years, using her platform to advocate for mental health awareness and support.
Who is Demi Lovato?
This theoretical physicist, who contributed groundbreaking work in cosmology and black hole physics, lived with ALS for more than 50 years and wrote the bestselling book "A Brief History of Time."
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Gallaudet University uses a special helmet for football players who use this language?
What is ASL or American Sign Language?
This social activist and slavery abolitionist, who is most well-known for her work on the Underground Railroad, suffered a traumatic brain injury that caused epilepsy.
Who is Harriet Tubman?