True or False
People with disabilities can vote, thanks to the protections provided in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
What is True?
Self-regulating behaviors that neurodivergent people use to cope with sensory under-/overload? Example: humming, hand fidgeting, finger tapping.
What is stimming?
Most people are aware of service dogs, but the ADA recognizes these animals as officially capable and protected service animals.
What are miniature horses?
Star of Speechless, the hit ABC sitcom about a teenager with Cerebral Palsy and his misadventures with his care attendant and quirky family.
Who is Micah Fowler?
This president is famous for passing the Social Security Act. He was a polio survivor who was self-conscious of his wheelchair and often went to great lengths to try to conceal it.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
All Deaf people can read lips.
What is False? Actually, less than 30% of Deaf people can read lips, and not all are fluent in ASL.
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, mental illnesses, as being an important and natural part of human identity and diversity.
What is Neurodiversity?
The idea that laws and programs designed to help vulnerable groups, such as people with disabilities or People of Color, often end up benefiting all of society.
What is The Curb Cut Effect?
A famous comedian, rapper, and former host of America's Got Talent! who lives with Lupus.
Who is Nick Cannon?
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act?
People who have a physical disability can play professional sports.
What is True? EX: Troy Aikman (NFL) and Mia Hamm (Professional Women's Soccer Player) were both born with Club Foot; Angels pitcher Jim Abbott was born without a right hand.
True or False: Neurodiversity does not include people with a TBI.
What is false? While a TBI does not come from one's genes, people with a TBI have many common experiences and similarities to those in the neurodiverse community.
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 values self-love and self-awareness, and celebrates the ways that our disabilities are visible and how they shape our human experience.
What is Disability Culture?
This famous artist and film director of "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride" discovered his own Autism after seeing his own childhood and struggles reflected in a documentary about Autism.
Who is Tim Burton?
On March 12th, 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.
What is The Capital Crawl? From young children to the elderly, they 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!"
It is okay to touch or move someone's mobility aid without asking their permission first.
What is False? Always treat a person's mobility aid as an extension of their body.
Many neurodiverse humans have a favorite subject or area of great expertise that they love to learn about or discuss. What are these called?
What is a special interest or hyperfixation?
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?
What are reasonable accommodations?
Who is Demi Lovato?
These laws allowed police to arrest and jail people with "apparent" disabilities for no reason other than being disabled.
What are the "Ugly Laws"? These lasted from the late 1860s until the 1970s.
People who are blind don't watch TV.
What is False? Blind people enjoy entertainment like anyone else, but they may require accommodations like Audio descriptions to enjoy TV or movies to their fullest.
Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg, & Cher have this disability in common.
What is Dyslexia?
It is always obvious when someone has a disability.
What is False? It is estimated that 70-80% of disabilities are invisible, meaning they are not readily apparent.
The father of the Independent Living Movement, and a major Disability Rights Leader. He survived polio and fought for his right to live on campus at UC Berkley, originally forced to sleep in an empty hospital wing due to the space needed for his iron lung.
Who is Ed Roberts? He paved the way for other students with disabilities to be able to live on campus.
This is the law that regulates the communication industry.
Telecommunications Act of 1996