History
This politician needed a wheelchair but was not photoraphed in one.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Services to assist people at risk of entering institutions
What is diversion?
rubberband, straw, pencil grip, bookmark magnifier
What is low tech assistive technology?
CT agency to address housing discrimination issues.
What is the CT Fair Housing Center?
This agency is the Designated State Entity (DSE) for the CT Independent Living Program.
What is the CT Department of Aging and Disability Services?
Geraldo Rivera reported on this infamous institution in New York
What is Willowbrook?
This core tenet allows consumers to determine their own goals and success.
What is consumer controlled?
Language used when talking about people with disabilities.
What is People First Language?
State Agency charged with assisting consumers to resolve problems with their health insurance plans.
What is the Office of the Healthcare Advocate?
Pre-employment transition services for students in special education.
What is Level Up?
TRUE OR FALSE? The Eugenics program to "improve" the population by extermination, controlled breeding and sterilization was begun by the Nazis.
What is false? (It was modeled after the U.S. programs of marriage prohibition and forced sterilization of people with disabilities.)
Providing opportunities for people with disabilities to talk, one-on-one or in a group, about life experiences.
What is Peer Support?
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Disabilities, Office of Independent Living Programs
What are the Federal administration agencies for SILC/CILs?
Agency giving legal services to low income individuals with mental health conditions, who reside in hospitals or the community, on matters related to their treatment, recovery, and civil rights.
What is the CT Legal Rights Project?
Health coverage for some low income people in Connecticut.
What is HUSKY A C and D?
Founder of the Independent Living Movement and disability rights activist
Who was Ed Roberts?
Independent Living skills training should consider these three learning styles.
What are auditory (I tell you), tactile (you do it) and visual (I show you).
The agency designated to provide technical assistance to the CILs and SILC.
What is ILRU?
This is an Alternative to Guardianship and Conservatorship.
What is Supported Decision Making?
Besides Service Dogs this is the second animal protected under the ADA.
What are miniature horses?
In March 1990 this event brought more than 1000 disability rights activists to the US Capitol.
What is the Capitol Crawl to urge passage of the ADA? About 100 wheelchair users crawled up the US Capitol steps.
This core service identifies and acts on barriers and discrimination.
What is systems advocacy?
Folding, Food, Flowers and Filth
What are the most common employment categories offered to people with disabilities?
Enacted in 1965 as Title 19 of the Social Security Act
What is Medicaid?
The Section of the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows for payment of subminimum wages.
What is section 14 (c), which allows employers to apply for 14 (c) certificates.