Historical Facts
In 1852 a school for "feeble-minded youth" was where?
Pennsylvania
This animal provides a service to persons with disabilities and is allowed anywhere the owner goes.
What is a service dog
What is the name of the actor who PLAYED Harry Potter character who has dyspraxia (not able to do coordinated movements).
Who is Daniel Radcliffe?
Forty years ago, where did most Americans with developmental disabilities live?
In institutions
People with disabilities were treated worse than___?
Animals
According to the ADA this is any modification or adjustment to a job or the work environment that will enable an applicant or employee with a disability to participate in the application process or to perform essential job functions.
What is "accommodation”?
United States President with polio and was a wheelchair user
Who is Frankiln D. Roosevelt?
What did the "Independent Living Movement" focus on?
to live independently
What was the fist sport to include people with disabilities?
Basketball
This movement is a social movement to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities.
What is the Disability Rights Movement.
The Mathematician/Physicist who had a learning disability and did not speak until age 3.
Who is Albert Einstein?
What is the acronym Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
IDEA
What year did the Nazis killed a hundred thousand and two hundred and fifty thousand children's and adults with disabilities
1930
This plan allows HIGH SCHOOL students with disabilities to access free appropriate public education
What is an IEP (Individualized Education Program)?
A theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and eminent scientist with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
What is normalization towards people with disabilities?
encouraged society to view people with developmental disabilities as people
What is the “Medical Model”?
Institutions were called “hospitals” or “treatment centers” and were headed by medical doctors or psychiatrists.
This is against the law for the state to discriminate against a person based on his or her disability.
Olmstead Decision
Was a Deaf composer and pianist from Germany.
Beethoven
President that signed the ADA into law
Who is George H.W. Bush