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100
Results from an injury to the spinal cord below the neck
What is paraplegia?
100
A person who has had a limb or extremity amputated
What is an amputee?
100
is a nonprofit organization leading an international effort to create awareness of the needs and abilities of people with physical disabilities, to promote the joy of giving, create global friendship, and to deliver a wheelchair to every child, teen and adult in the world who needs one, but cannot afford one.
What is The Wheel Chair Foundation?
100
True or false: Back and spine problems are a top cause of disabilities.
What is true?
100
"the disabled" is an example of what type of phrase?
What is negative phrase?
200
an infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis
What is Polio?
200
A famous surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack, but then proved that her disability did not define her.
What is Bethany Hamilton?
200
What does NARIC stand for?
What is the National Rehabilitation Information Center?
200
Between 1991 and 1992, how many people reported having a disabling condition?
What is 49 million people?
200
What does CDC stand for?
What is centers for disease control and prevention?
300
damage to the spinal cord in the neck
What is quadriplegia?
300
Give two reasons why amputations are done
What is frostbite, severe injury, cancerous tumor, serious infection, neuroma?
300
Give two ways you can help
What is being understanding an patient, familiarizing yourself, treating people with disabilities the same way you wish to be treated, communicating with people who have a disability in a way that does not define them by their disability, etc?
300
1 in _ people in their 20's will become disabled before they retire.
What is 4?
300
Polio was an epidemic of what time period?
What is the 1950's?
400
a progressive disease which involves damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms include: numbness, speech impairment, blurred vision, fatigue.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
400
True of false: Familiarizing yourself with known effects of amputations is a form of helping?
What is true?
400
a private, non-profit organization that promotes the full participation of America’s 54 million people with disabilities in all aspects of life.
What is The National Organization on Disability (NOD)
400
Direct medical costs for people who have a disability reached a collected total of ______ in 1996.
What is $260 billion?
400
Almost ______ people have experience an amputation or were born with a limb difference.
What is 2 million people?
500
paralysis of one side of the body resulting from disease or injury to the motor centers of the brain
What is hemiplegia?
500
Give two examples of high successful individuals who are also amputees.
What is Oscar Pistorius, Bethany Hamilton, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, Nick Vujicic?
500
exists to provide awareness, prevention, support and Ultimately a cure for paralysis. The Foundation helps improve the quality of life for those already afflicted with injury or illness, by providing necessary equipment or special services.
What is The Darrel Gwynn Foundation?
500
what are 5 of the top ten causes of disability?
What is arthritis or rheumatism, back or spine problems, heart trouble, mental or emotional pain, lung or respiratory problem, diabetes, deafness or hearing problem, stiffness or deformity of limbs/extremities, blindness or vision problem, stroke?
500
"he has overcome his disability" is an example of what?
What is negative phrase?