History
This is the year that the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, was signed.
What is 1990?
These tiny equestrians can be trained to help like an assistance dog.
What is a Miniature Horse or Guide Horse?
This term describes a disability that is not immediately apparent.
What is an invisible disability?
A German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This device goes in the ear and assists the deaf or hard of hearing.
What is a hearing aid?
The Social Security Act began while this president was in office.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
Blind people use these animals to guide them.
What is a guide dog?
This disability makes it tough to read and spell.
What is Dyslexia?
This famous person with Autism reinvented the cattle industry.
Who is Temple Grandin?
This written language uses characters represented by patterns of raised dots that are felt with the fingertips.
What is Braille?
This is the world's only university in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students.
What is Gallaudet University?
These small animals are at home in the Rainforest but can be trained to assist a person with disabilities.
What is a monkey?
This developmental disability affects verbal and non-verbal communication and social interactions and generally appears before age three.
What is Autism?
This actor, game show host, and TV personality struggles with being afraid of germs, cleanliness, and feeling dirty all the time.
Who is Howie Mandell?
This person accompanies a deaf or hard of hearing person to class and interprets for them.
What is an interpreter?
This is the first state to establish a worker's compensation program.
What is Wisconsin?
These animals are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability
What is a service animal?
This disability causes recurrent and persistent thoughts and feelings & repetitive and ritualistic behaviors which leads to anxiety.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
This famous actor starred in "The Blues Brothers", "My Girl", and "Ghostbusters".
Who is Dan Aykroyd?
This person serves as a voice for someone with a disability who is unable to express their rights and needs in the community?
Who is an Advocate?
What is sterilization?
This intelligent animal is chosen when a person is allergic to dogs.
What is a Potbellied Pig?
Persons with this disability have difficulty staying awake.
What is Narcolepsy?
This actor learns lines from listening to audiotapes because dyslexia makes reading difficult and that can be RISKY BUSINESS in his profession.
Who is Tom Cruise?
This device allows deaf people to see each other so they can speak in sign language, even when they are across the country.
What is a video phone?