History of Disabilities
A 1997 study suggested this ratio of children with developmental disabilities face some sort of maltreatment. (Verdugo & Bermejo, 1997)
What is 1/3 of children with developmental disabilities?
Section of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974 that, "forbids organizations and employers from excluding or denying individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to receive program benefits and services" (Disability Services, 2019)
What is section 504?
Christopher Olson developed this technology to allow those with motor issues to mobilize (Who Invented the Wheelchair, 2019).
What is the wheelchair?
This woman born blind and deaf grew to become a author, public speaker, and activist. She also helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920. (Celebrating achievements, 2018)
Who is Helen Keller?
This inventor considered the "father of electricity" suffered from scarlet fever as a child and subsequently became deaf. (Rossen, 2016)
Who is Thomas Edison?
The attitude towards this group of american individuals in the late 19th century was they were in some way responsible for their fate. (Kirkpatrick, 2003, p. 9)
What is American individuals with mental disabilities?
This Act guarantees every child with a disability the right to a public school education. (Disability Services, 2019)
What is The 1975 Education of All Handicapped Children Act?
Noriko Umeda invented this device to assist those with visual impairments (History and Development of Speech Synthesis, n. d.)
What is the text to speech system?
This actor with Cerebral Palsy starred in the show "Breaking Bad" and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. He also gave a talk at Oxford University when he was just 22. (Celebrating achievements, 2018)
Who is RJ Mitte?
Considered to have dyslexia, this individual is considered "A master of art, mathematics, astronomy, and dozens of other pursuits", and his work inspired years and years of following ingenuities. (Rossen, 2016)
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
This movement beginning in the early 1990's sought to forcibly sterilize those they considered to have "cognitive impairments" (Reiter, 2018).
What is the Eugenics Movement?
This act passed in 1990 and amended in 2008 is considered a, "major civil rights law that prohibits discrimination of people with disabilities in many aspects of public life". (Disability Services, 2019)
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
This system was broadcast in 1973 with the PBS station WETA and helped those with hearing impairments or sensory issues. (A Brief History, 2011)
What is closed captioning?
This former U.S. president who served for four terms and was beloved by the American people suffered from Polio at a young age and was subsequently wheelchair-bound for life. (Carlson, 2013)
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This animal behaviorist diagnosed with autism is the reason why many positive changes have been made to the livestock and meat processing industry. (Rossen, 2016)
Who is Temple Grandin?
In 1994 a study suggested that, "82% of all cases of abuse and neglect of adults with developmental disabilities" occurred here (Furey et al., 1994).
What is in institutions or group homes?
This university is considered the birthplace of the independent living movement as it was one of the first to provide students with living accommodations. (Disability Services, 2019)
What is UC Berkeley?
Miller Reese Hutchinson developed the first of this device in 1898 to help those with hearing impairments. (Decibel Hearing Services, 2019)
What is the hearing aid?
This renown physicist wrote a best-selling novel surrounding general relativity and quantum mechanics titled A Brief History of Time while battling ALS. (Carlson, 2013)
Who is Stephen Hawking?
This nobel prizer winner with hearing-impairments made discoveries "that led to greater understanding about hormones, cell life spans, and even how the body can reject transplanted organs" (Rossen, 2016).
Who is Edwin Krebs?
Women with disabilities are 10.7 times more likely that women without disabilities to experience sexual abuse (Sobsey, 2001)
What is the likeliness of women with disabilities to be sexually abused compared to women without disabilities?
Students at this university for the deaf campaigned for a deaf president to sit on the universities Board of Trustees and their activism inspired inclusion and integration nationwide. (Disability Services, 2019)
What is Gallaudet University?
This device used to assist with keyboard usage is for individuals with finger contractures. (AliMed® Clear View Typing Aid)
What is the Clear View Typing Aid?
This singing and piano prodigy who signed to a record label at age 11 recorded over 30 U.S. top ten hits all while being blind. (Carlson, 2013)
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This renown paleontologist who lost both his legs due to a plane crash discovered multiple near-complete dinosaur bone sets while contributing to conservation efforts in Kenya. (Rossen, 2016)
Who is Richard Leaky?