Definitions for Disability Awareness
An experience of any condition with mental, physical, or both that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or limits a person's movement, or senses.
Disability
What are two models for disabilities?
Medical and Social
What are two main types of discrimination?
Direct and Indirect
An individual's beliefs about an outcome influence perceptions of one's own or others’ behavior.
Expectation Bias
What is the difference between Diversity and Inclusion?
Diversity is a fact ( Race, gender, etc.)
Inclusion is a behavior( The act/ Practice of diversity)
A legal document under United States law that is developed for each public school child in the U.S. who needs special education.
An IEP (Individualized Education Program)
According to the social model, _______ is the contributory factor in disabling people.
Society
Name three origins of Bias/forms of Bias.
Pick three:
Gender, Physical Abilities, Mental Abilities, Religion, Income, Age, Sexual Orientation, Geography, Culture, Ethnicity, Seniority, Marital Status, Appearance, Education, Upbringing, Experience
What is a Microaggression?
Subtle, verbal, and nonverbal slights and insults directed toward and individual die to their group membership, often automatically and unconsciously.
What is inclusion?
Being able to access and gain equal opportunities
What model views disability as a defect within the individual.
Medical Model
Difference between Impairment and Disability
Impairment
– Condition illness or label
Disability
– Is about the barriers and discrimination
What is it considered when an individual allows their brain to give into the Unconscious Bias?
Being on autopilot
Identify the theme:
We can't have a woman president! All of the world leaders are mostly men, and they would just walk all over her!
Second Class Citizen Theme
What does Equity mean?
It recognizes advantages and barriers and ensures everyone has access to the same opportunities.
A federal civil rights law prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities.
Disability Discrimination Act
Name ONE language DO when it comes to talking to or about an individual with a disability.
Person with a disability/has a disability
Deaf or Hard of Hearing, people/person with hearing loss
Accessible parking/ restrooms/ seating
Intellectual disability, person with a intellectual disability “Cognitive Disability”
Person first language (person with down syndrome)
Name one step you can take to acknowledge your biases.
● Acknowledge and accept that we all have them.
● Increase your awareness by seeking knowledge!
● Evaluate which life experiences may have contributed to their development and avoid these experiences in the future.
● Engage in intentional interactions with others who are different from you (i.e., different lived experiences, opinions, race, gender, etc.)
● Be an advocate for dispelling biases
The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.
Cognitive Dissonance
The process of categorizing, marginalizing, or regarding according to race.
Racialization
In the definition of Social Model of Disability, it is a ____ and ____ issue.
Rights, and Economic Issue
What court rulling by the Supreme Court passed that allowed states to force sterilization of people who are disabled in the U.S in 1924?
Buck vs. Bell
What are TWO short-term characteristics/effects of having a bias?
Being tired
Impatience
Being in a hurry
Being irritated
Hungry
Identify the theme:
Where are you from? Where were you born? You speak good English. You don't even speak with an accent. How long have you been in the States?
(When they were born in America)
Alien in Own Land
What is the main difference between Equality and Equity?
Equality sounds fair. All students are treated the same and have access to the same or similar resources
Equity is fair. All students receive access to the resources that they need in order to be as prepared as their peers.