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True or False
Neurodiversity
Disability Culture
Famous People with Disabilities
Disability Rights History
100
People with disabilities can vote, thanks to the protections provided in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
True
100
What do you call the self-regulating behaviors Autistic people use to cope with sensory under/overload? Examples of these behaviors include hand-flapping, rocking, humming or singing, repeating words, biting or chewing on things, jumping, and many more.
Stimming
100
Everyone knows about Service Dogs, but there is one other animal that the ADA formally recognizes as an officially capable and protected service animal. What animal is it?
Miniature horses
100
Star of Speechless, the hit ABC sitcom about a teenager with Cerebral Palsy and his misadventures with his care attendant and quirky family.
Micah Fowler
100
This president is famous for passing the Social Security act and being re-elected for an unprecedented four terms. He was a polio survivor who was rather self-conscious of his wheelchair, and often went to great lengths to hide it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
200
All d/Deaf people can read lips.
False - Actually, less than 30% of Deaf people can read lips, and not all are fluent in ASL. You should never make assumptions; ask how someone prefers to communicate.
200
An approach to learning and disability that says "all kinds of minds" are the result of natural variations in human genes. It includes people with all types of neurological or psychological differences, from Autism & ADHD to memory disorders and mental illnesses, as being an important and natural part of human identity and diversity.
Neurodiversity
200
The idea that laws and programs designed to help vulnerable groups, such as People with Disabilities or People of Color, often end up benefitting all of society.
The Curb Cut Effect
200
Famous comedian, rapper, and previous host of America's Got Talent! who lives with Lupus (SLE)
Nick Cannon
200
Which 1990 act provided comprehensive civil rights protection for people with disabilities?
The Americans with Disabilities Act
300
People who have a physical disability can play professional sports.
True - Troy Aikman (NFL) and Mia Hamm (Professional US Women's Soccer) were both born with Club Foot; California Angels Pitcher Jim Abbott was born without a right hand
300
True or false: Neurodiversity does not include people with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury).
False. Although TBI does not come from one's genes, people with TBI have many common experiences and similarities to Autistic people, people with OCD, and many others under the neurodiverse umbrella. Our similarities are more important than our differences.
300
A way of thinking about Disabilities that offers ways for people with different disabilities to pursue their own, as well as shared goals. This Community Value centers self-love and self-awareness, and celebrates the ways that our Disabilities are visible, and how they shape our Human Experience.
Disability Culture
300
This famous artist and film director of "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride" fame discovered his own Autism after seeing his own childhood and struggles reflected in a documentary about Autism.
Tim Burton
300
On March 12, 1990, more than 1000 Disability Rights Activists from 30 States gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. to protest the delays in the passing of the ADA. After a rally, almost 100 advocates, from young children to the elderly, abandoned their wheelchairs and mobility aids to crawl up the 83 stone steps to the U.S. Capitol Building chanting, "What do we want?" "ADA!" "When do we want it?" "NOW!" What name has this pivotal moment in Disability Rights History come to be known as?
The Capitol Crawl
400
It is okay to touch or move someone's mobility aid without asking their permission first.
False - Always treat a person's mobility aid as an extension of their body. Do not touch or move it without the owner's clear consent.
400
Many ND folks have a favorite subject or area of great expertise that they love to learn and talk about, and may even collect things related to that subject. What are these called?
Special Interests (or a Hyperfixation)
400
Large Print books; ramps and elevators; captions for spoken audio; modified equipment or seating; access to a Quiet Room; trigger warnings; mobility aids; and taking more frequent breaks are all examples of _________________?
Reasonable accommodations
400
Pop star and actor of "Camp Rock" fame is a self-advocate who has been very public about her struggles with an eating disorder and substance abuse, and was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder during her treatment. She frequently speaks publicly about her own story, and about mental health awareness.
Demi Lovato
400
These laws allowed police to arrest and jail people with "apparent" disabilities for no reason other than being disfigured or demonstrating some type of disability. From the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ____ laws that deemed it illegal for persons who were "unsightly" or "unseemly" to appear in public.
"Ugly Laws"
500
People who are blind don't watch TV.
False - Blind people enjoy entertainment like anyone else, but they make require accommodations like Audio Descriptions to enjoy TV and movies to the fullest.
500
What symbol represents neurodiversity?
A rainbow infinity symbol; many Autistic people prefer this instead of the puzzle piece.
500
Model for studying and thinking about Disability that says that disability is caused by the way society is organized, not by a person's individual difference or impairment. It looks at ways of removing barriers that restrict life for Disabled People.
The Social Model of Disability
500
The father of the Independent Living Movement, and a major Disability Rights Leaders. He was a polio survivor who fought for his right to live on campus and be a student at UC Berkley, originally sleeping in an empty hospital wing because nowhere else would house him and the iron lung he needed to help him breathe as he slept. His admission paved the way for other students with significant physical and medical needs to come to campus, and resulted in the formation of the very first Center for Independent Living
Ed Roberts
500
Which term is the (pseudo)science of improving the human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. This especially applied to the sterilization and institutionalization of the physically and mentally disabled?
Eugenics