Celebrity definitions
Celebrities with disabilities
Disabilities definitions
Disability Resources
100

 The state of being known or recognized by many people because of your achievements, skills, etc.

Fame

100

This celebrity, Cecily Collette, starred in what recent movie?


Wicked 

100

Lacking the power of hearing

Deaf

100

An adjustment to make a program, facility, or resource accessible to a person with a disability

Accommodation 

200

A large amount of money, goods, property, etc.

Fortune

200

Musician Stevie Wonder suffers from what disability? 

Blindness

200

Unable to see because of injury, disease or cognitive ability

Blind

300

Conversation or reports about other people’s private lives that might be unkind, disapproving, or not true

Gossip

300

Tom Holland has what learning disability? 

Dyslexia 

300

Having a condition that restricts their ability to function physically, mentally, or socially

Handicapped

300

a system of communication using visual gestures and signs used by deaf people

Sign language 

400

A type of popular newspaper with small pages that has many pictures and short, simple reports

Tabloids

400

What two disabilities did Helen Keller suffer from?

Blindness and deafness

400

Cause a person (or part of the body) to become partially or wholly incapable of movement

Paralyzed

400

Text that is included with video presentation that enables people with hearing impairments to have access to the audio portion of the material

 Captioning

500

 To write your signature on something, often for someone else to keep

To autograph

500

Elton John suffers from what disability?

Epilepsy 

500

Discrimination in favor of able-bodied people

Abelism 

500

A form of written language for blind people, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots that are felt with the fingertips

Braille