Award Winners
This famous physicist (who unfortunately passed away in 2018 at the age of 76) won numerous awards including the Adams Prize, the Copley Medal, and even the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
This film focuses on the story of a successful sports writer reconnecting with his former professor who has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. The movie focuses on the deep conversation they have and reflects on the professor's past, as well as the main character's present. (Maddy also gave a presentation on it)
What is Tuesdays with Morrie?
This famous inventor changed the world with his rather "bright" ideas and over 1000 patents, and also was nearly entirely deaf in both ears
Who is Thomas Edison?
This 23 time Olympic gold medallist in swimming for the USA has opened up in recent years about his life with depression and anxiety
Who is Michael Phelps?
This term refers to the discrimination against people with disabilities
What is Ableism?
This Italian tenor has won multiple World Music Awards, Classical Brit Awards, and has been nominated for multiple Grammies. He has also been completely blind since the age of 12.
Who is Andrea Bocelli?
This movie, based on a true story, stars Robin Williams and Robert De Niro and explores a patient in an unresponsive state and his doctor's attempts to use drugs to bring him out of it (Bri also gave a presentation on it)
What is Awakenings?
This famous American author, disability rights activist, and lecturer wrote fourteen books and almost 500 speeches and essays on various issues of her day. She was also deaf and blind.
Who is Helen Keller?
This MLB pitcher is loved in New York for his time with the Yankees, where he accomplished the rare feat of throwing a "no-hitter" in 1993. he was also born without a right hand
Who is Jim Abbott?
This is the ability to emotionally understand what other people feel, see things from their point of view, and imagine what they are feeling
What is Empathy?
This mathematician won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994, worked at both Princeton and MIT, and had a movie made about his life called A Beautiful Mind. He also lived with schizophrenia
Who is John Nash?
This movie explores the life of George Bailey, who is deaf in one ear, at a particular low point in his life as he struggles to save his loan business and is shown by his guardian angel what the world would look like without him (Alex also gave a presentation on it)
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
This 32nd President of America is famous for having led the U.S. out of the Great Depression, through World War II, and being elected president 4 times. He also contracted a disease when he was 39 that paralyzed him from the waist down.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This famous surfer lost an arm in a shark attack when she was only 13. This did not stop her from competing against able bodied surfers with a surfboard specifically designed for her, and eventually a movie was written about her called Soul Surfer
Who is Bethany Hamilton?
This is an individual's ability to adapt and cope in the face of adversity; an individual's defense against stress.
What is Resilience?
This British woman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for solving the atomic structure, a breakthrough that helped researchers better understand penicillin and insulin. She also lived with rheumatoid arthritis
Who is Dorothy Hodgkin?
This movie stars a man with down syndrome who fled his nursing home to try to become a wrestler (Blake also gave a presentation on it)
What is The Peanut Butter Falcon?
This German composer from the 18th and 19th century is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best, classical music composers of all time. He also lived much of his life deaf.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This founder of the gym No Excuses CrossFit was born without legs below his knees and without arms past his elbows. He also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro without prosthetics, competed in MMA, and has broken weightlifting records.
Who is Kyle Maynard?
This type of representation of disabilities in the media, such as in the movie Rain Man, can be harmful because it sets unrealistic expectations for people with autism and makes it seem as though they need to be "special" to matter
What is the Superhero Portrayal?
This woman with hypopituitary dwarfism won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the movie The Year of Living Dangerously, which was released in 1982. She is also famous for her roles in NCIS: Los Angeles, Kindergarten Cop, and Pocahontas
Who is Linda Hunt?
This 2012 documentary explores the prevalence of concussions in sports and the impact it's having on players, especially in leagues such as the NFL (Ben also gave a presentation on it)
What is Head Games?
This famous star of Back to the Future was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 at 29 years old. Since then he has started a foundation that has raised roughly 2 billion dollars for Parkinson's research
Who is Michael J. Fox?
This Italian Formula 1 racer got in an accident in 2001 that led to both his legs being amputated, however that did not stop him from coming back with a BMW specifically designed for him and winning 4 World Touring Car Championships.
Who is Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi?
This type of condition is thought to be more controllable and thus is associated with more blame, more anger, and less sympathy
What is Acquired Condition?