Disability Culture
Accessibility
Famous People with Disabilities
Disability Rights History
100
What is the Disability Pride Flag?
Bonus Question for 500!:
What do the 6 colors represent?
100
Everyone knows about Service Dogs, but the ADA recognizes these animals as an officially capable and protected service animal.
What are Miniature horses?
100
Famous Disney star who lives with Lupus.
Who is Selena Gomez?
100
This president is famous for passing the Social Security act and being re-elected for an unprecedented four terms. He was a polio survivor who was rather self-conscious of his wheelchair, and often went to great lengths to hide it.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
Self-regulating behaviors Autistic people use to cope with sensory under/overload? Examples of these behaviors include hand-flapping, rocking, humming or singing, repeating words, biting or chewing on things, jumping, and many more.
What is stimming?
200
The idea that laws and programs designed to help vulnerable groups, such as People with Disabilities or People of Color, often end up benefiting all of society.
What is "The Curb Cut Effect"?
200
Star of Speechless, the hit ABC sitcom about a teenager with Cerebral Palsy and his misadventures with his care attendant and quirky family.
Who is Micah Fowler?
200
This 1990's act provided some civil rights protection for people with disabilities. Still more work to do!
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act?
300
The idea that disability is due to societal barriers and perceptions, rather than the individual. The goal is to not "fix" the disabled person, but instead remove barriers in the environment.
What is the Social Model of Disability?
300
A way of thinking about Disabilities that offers ways for people with different disabilities to pursue their own, as well as shared goals. This Community Value centers self-love and self-awareness, and celebrates the ways that our Disabilities are visible, and how they shape our Human Experience.
What is "Disability Culture"?
300
This blind Youtuber with Retinitis Pigmentosa became the first blind content creator to surpass one million followers. She makes videos on her experiences and advocates for people with disabilities.
Who is Molly Burke?
300
On March 12, 1990, more than 1000 Disability Rights Activists from 30 States gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. to protest the delays in the passing of the ADA.
What is The Capitol Crawl? After a rally, almost 100 advocates, from young children to the elderly, abandoned their wheelchairs and mobility aids to crawl up the 83 stone steps to the U.S. Capitol Building chanting, "What do we want?" "ADA!" "When do we want it?" "NOW!"
400
This symbol represents neurodiversity.
What is a rainbow infinity symbol? Many Autistic people prefer this instead of the puzzle piece.
400
Large Print books; ramps and elevators; captions for spoken audio; modified equipment or seating; access to a Quiet Room; trigger warnings; mobility aids; and taking more frequent breaks are all examples of _________________?
What are reasonable accommodations?
400
Pop star and actor of "Camp Rock" fame is a self-advocate who has been very public about her struggles with an eating disorder and substance abuse, and was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder during her treatment. She frequently speaks publicly about her own story, and about mental health awareness.
Who is Demi Lovato?
400
These laws allowed police to arrest and jail people with "apparent" disabilities for no reason other than being disfigured or demonstrating some type of disability.
What are "Ugly Laws"? From the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had Ugly Laws that deemed it illegal for persons who were "unsightly" or "unseemly" to appear in public.
500
The 6 colors on the Disability Pride Flag represent ____?
What is... Red is physical disabilities
Yellow is cognitive and intellectual disabilities
White is invisible and undiagnosed disabilities
Blue is psychiatric disabilities
Green is sensory disabilities.
Grey is honoring disabled lives lost.
500
This person invented the Phonograph in 1877, which has allowed vision-impaired individuals to access texts.
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
The father of the Independent Living Movement, and a major Disability Rights Leaders. He was a polio survivor who fought for his right to live on campus and be a student at UC Berkley, originally sleeping in an empty hospital wing because nowhere else would house him and the iron lung he needed to help him breathe as he slept.
Who is Ed Roberts? His admission paved the way for other students with significant physical and medical needs to come to campus, and resulted in the formation of the very first Center for Independent Living
500
This historic disability rights protest organized by Judy Heumann began on April 5, 1977 and lasted a month. It forced the federal government to issue and enforce regulations for a vital piece of legislation.
What is the 504-sit in?