History
The year that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed.
What is 1990?
Reality TV show starring Autistic people.
What is Love on the Spectrum?
Discrimination against people based on disabilities.
What is ableism?
A mode of mobility that does not require walking.
What is a wheelchair?
This law is often referred to as the disability civil rights law.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The person who invented Braille.
Who is Louis Braille?
Oscar-nominated documentary about the disability rights movement.
What is Crip Camp?
The act of warehousing people with disabilities in hospitals or nursing homes.
What is institutionalization?
Instead of steps, some people have this to enter their home.
What is a ramp?
This law provides free, appropriate public education to eligible students with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
The father of the independent living movement.
Who is Ed Roberts?
The first wheelchair-user to win a Tony.
Who is Ali Stroker?
A lens through which disability is viewed as the result of how a person's environment reacts to their impairment.
What is the social model of disability?
A program that blind people and people with low vision use to navigate the internet.
What is a screen reader?
This law prohibits any federally funded organization or program from discriminating against people based on their disability status.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
The year of the first Paralympic Games.
What is 1960?
The first openly Autistic person to win an Oscar.
Who is Anthony Hopkins?
The belief that we all rely on one another whether we have a disability or not.
What is interdependence?
A device that helps people with and without disabilities control technology in their homes.
What is a smart device?
This law prohibits discrimination in the housing market.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
The football strategy "the huddle" was invented here.
What is Gallaudet University?
The first TV show to feature a disabled character played by a disabled actor.
What is Miss Susan?
An invasive "treatment" devised to prevent people with disabilities from having children.
What is forced sterilization?
A device many people with polio used to breathe.
What is an iron lung?
This law prohibits airlines from discriminating against people with disabilities.
What is the Air Carrier Access Act?