VT History
The all time highest winning coach in Virginia Tech football.
Who is Frank Beamer?
Writer of "An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist".
Who is Judy Heumann?
A deaf student attempting to enroll in a nursing program who was denied admission.
What is Southeastern Community College v. Davis? [442 U.S. 397 (U.S. Supreme Court, 1979)]
Popular notetaking software that focuses on tagging audio.
What is Glean?
After much protest, the sidewalks around the US finally got this upgrade in the 1970s.
What are curb cuts?
The year Virginia Tech was founded.
What is 1872?
"Father" of the independent living movement and ringleader of disability rights at UC Berkley.
Who is Ed Roberts?
In 2021, OCR upheld their decision that schools cannot charge disabled students more for single room accommodations against this school.
What is New York University?
This screen reader is quite chatty, but that's not hurting its popularity.
What is JAWS?
This president signed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.
Who is George Bush?
2023-2024 student body enrollment.
What is 30,000 students?
National and International speaker on Ableism. Past president of AHEAD from 2020 to 2022.
Who is Amanda Kraus?
This 2022 case concerning a Japanese class was about a controversial accommodation that was not supported but is on the rise.
What is remote access to class?
This device makes things big. Newer models fit in a backpack, but the originals didn't even fit in a suitcase.
What is a video magnifier?
This landmark event proceeded and sped along the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
What is the Capitol Crawl?
Name of the Virginia Tech cannon.
What is Skipper?
Current president of AHEAD in Virginia got her start in services for the deaf and hard-of hearing.
Who is Joan Ehrlich?
This case from the early 1990s is considered the seminole case on how to determine a fundamental alteration.
What is Wynne v. Tufts University School of Medicine? [976 F.2d 791, 932 F.2d 19 (1st Cir. 1992 and 1991 (en banc)]
This dictation software breaths fire.
What is Dragon?
Credited with patenting the first practical telephone, this inventor was seeking better access for the deaf.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The first winner (2012) of the Sally Bohland Award for Exceptional Leadership in Access and inclusion.
Who is Dr. Leo Piilonen?
Author of the recently published book "Technoableism" and well-known Virginia Tech disability activist.
Who is Ashley Shew?
This university opted to take down all their massive online open courses (MOOC) in 2018 as part of a multi-year case by the National Deaf Association on the lack of closed captions in videos.
What is UC Berkley?
This first director of Assistive Technologies at Virginia Tech created the Special Services lab which is known today as AT Services.
Who is Bill Holbach?
The first director of Services for Students with Disabilities at Virginia Tech.
Who is Virginia (Ginny) Riley?