Disability Legislation
The year the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed.
What is 1990?
This model views disability as a medical condition to be "fixed."
What is the Medical Model?
This leader organized the Section 504 sit-ins and championed the ADA.
Who is Judy Heumann?
A framework focusing on intersectionality and dismantling systemic oppression.
What is Disability Justice?
This historical movement promoted genetic "purity" and was rooted in ableism and racism.
Eugenics
This law was the first to prohibit discrimination in federally funded programs.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
This model focuses on societal barriers rather than individual impairments.
What is the Social Model?
This advocate founded the Disability Visibility Project and recently won a MacArthur Award.
Who is Alice Wong?
A slogan advocating for disabled individuals' participation in decision-making.
What is “Nothing About Us Without Us”?
The Supreme Court case that upheld forced sterilization under eugenics laws.
Buck v. Bell in 1927
This section of the Rehabilitation Act guarantees equal access to federally funded programs.
What is Section 504?
This concept challenges euphemistic or stigmatizing language like "wheelchair-bound."
What is Language: Reclaiming Terms?
An academic pioneer who reframed disability as a social and cultural construct.
Who is Simi Linton?
This phrase describes the compounded impact of disability with race, gender, or class.
What is Intersectionality?
This state was the first in the U.S. to enact compulsory sterilization laws.
What is Indiana?
This title of the ADA prohibits discrimination in public services like schools and transportation.
What is Title II?
This model views disability as a consequence of immorality or sin (pre-19th century) and led to societal violence, exclusion, and charity-based pity.
What is the Moral Model?
This architect is credited with creating Universal Design principles.
Who is Ronald Mace?
This principle of justice focuses on building community, pedagogy, and agency.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
This policy promoted systemic inequities during COVID-19 by deprioritizing disabled individuals for lifesaving care.
What is medical rationing?
This federal mandate requires accessible healthcare equipment, including exam tables, by 2026.
What is the 2024 DOJ Accessible Healthcare Mandate?
This proactive framework ensures environments are accessible for everyone from the start.
What is Universal Design?
Known for advocating against ableist rhetoric in climate justice, she authored Disability Justice and Climate Justice.
Who is Julia Watts Belser?
This documentary chronicles the rise of the disability rights movement in the 1970s.
What is Crip Camp?
This law guarantees Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) for students with disabilities.
What is the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) through an IEP (Individualized Educatoin Program)?