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ADA Basics
Who you gonna call?
CIL or Not?
CIL Services
General Knowledge
100

This is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life

What is The Americans with disabilities Act

100

From helping someone understand their benefits, preparing youth for adulthood, or navigating employment, this OMO department covers a little bit of everything.

What is SIL?

100

A consumer wants to learn how to make a monthly budget and manage household expenses

What is Independent Living Skills Training?

100
Centers for Independent Living help people learn how to do all kinds of thing to better manage their own lives. Things like learning how to ride the bus, planning a budget or figuring out how you are going to use the shower in your home fall under this category.
What is Independent Living Skills Training?
100

The ADA defines this as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.

What is a disability?

200

When was the ADA passed 

July 26, 1990

200

This department provides personal care services for individuals who need assistance completing everyday activities in their own homes.

What is In-Home?

200

Someone calls your office looking for accessible transportation, but your CIL doesn't provide transportation directly. You help them locate another community resource

What is Information & Referral?

200
Centers for Independent Living provide information about community resources that are available to people with disabilities. Helping people access services and products such as affordable, accessible housing; transportation options or adaptive equipment are examples of this service.
What are Information and Referral Services?
200

Employment protections for qualified individuals with disabilities are covered under this title of the ADA.

What is Title I?

300

A person must be substantially limited in this to be considered "disabled" under the law.

What is a Major life activity?

300

A consumer wants to learn about equipment or devices that could make everyday tasks easier and more accessible.

What is SIL Assistive Technology?

300

A consumer wants support speaking up about an accessibility barrier affecting them personally

What is Individual Advocacy

300
Through this service, people with disabilities get advice from other people with disabilities on many different issues to help them weigh options and make informed decisions about their own lives.
What is Peer Counseling?
300

The ADA requires this to accessible. 

What are Public Accomodations?

400

True or False? The definition of disability under the ADA includes both mental and physical conditions.

What is True?

400

In this program, the consumer has greater control over choosing, hiring, and directing the attendant who provides their personal care.

What is CDS / Consumer Directed Services?

400

Rather than focusing on “fixing” a person's disability, the Independent Living philosophy focuses on removing these from the person's environment and community

What are barriers?

400
Whether done individually or within a group, Centers for Independent Living teach people how to fight for and get the things they want and need in life. Individuals can learn how to communicate and negotiate with agencies, service providers, employers and others in order to obtain needed benefits, services or accommodations. As a group people with disabilities learn how to effect public policy decisions important to them in their own communities.
What is Individual and Systems Advocacy?
400

What anniversary of the ADA are we celebrating this year?

What is the 36th?

500

What does the American with disabilities Act require employers to do? 

What is provide reasonable accommodations?

500

A consumer receives services through the Department of Mental Health and needs support related specifically to those services.

What is the DMH department/program?

500

This phrase describes the idea that people with disabilities have firsthand knowledge of disability and should have a central role in decisions about services and policies affecting them.

What is “Nothing About Us Without Us”?


500

These services help students with disabilities prepare for life after high school, including work, education, and independent living

What are "Transition" services?

500

President that signed the ADA into law.

Who is George H.W. Bush?