Dyslexia, specific learning disabilities, poor hearing, epilepsy, ....
What are types of "hidden" disabilities?
100
Having a disability means that a person is sick or has a physical or mental defect.
What is a disability myth?
100
I.D.E.A. are initials for this.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
100
An alteration of the environment, curriculum format, or equipment that allows an individual with a disability to gain access to content and/or complete assigned tasks.
What is an accommodation?
100
To communicate your disability-related needs and your skills, strengths, and abilities in a positie and very clear mode.
What is to self-advocate?
200
Autism, Deaf-Blindness, Other Health Impairment, Orthopedic Impairment, Visual Impairment...
What are some categories of disabilities?
200
"Invalid, not normal, wheelchair-bound, slow, psycho..."
What are inappropriate words to describe people with disabilities?
200
A civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.
What is the Rehabilitation Act?
200
A change in the curriculum made for the students with disabilities to enable them to comprehend all of what the instructor is teaching.
What is a modification?
200
When you reveal personal information about yourself for a specific reason and do this purposefully.
What is self-disclosure?
300
Helen Keller, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Cruise, Michael J. Fox, Abraham Lincoln...
What are some famous people with disabilities?
300
Using language that puts the person before the disability and describes what a person has, not who a person is.
What it means to use "people first" language?
300
The education program and written document made collaboratively by a team for students with disability.
What is an IEP?
300
Note takers, extra time for exams, enlarged print, qualified interpreters...
What are examples of accommodations?
300
A written statement one makes about themselves that identifies strengths, challenges, accommodation needs, etc., that is used for "practice" and helps build self-confidence.