No Pity 1
Our mid-term memoir
What is Don't Call Me Inspirational?
The popular movement to avoid the emergence of a “defective” race.
What is Eugenics?
“Deaf President now” was the cry of this university’s hard-of-hearing student body.
What is Gallaudet University?
Eunice Kennedy Shriver established these games.
What is the Special Olympics?
Author of our mid-term memoir
Who is Harilyn Rousso?
The island where Deaf and hearing individuals led similar lives.
What is Martha's Vineyard?
The device that trained a generation of self-advocates
What is television?
PDSP is the acronym for the organization established by PWDs to help PWDs.
What is the Physically Disabled Students' Program?
All disabled people share one common experience
What is discrimination?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
He chose to be a star when stared at in his wheelchair.
Who is Ed Roberts?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The name of the group of people living in the hospital at the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley
Who were the Rolling Quads?
This infamous institution was exposed by Geraldo Rivera.
What is the Willowbrook State School.
He burned his book publicly to protest the threat to his Social Security benefits.
Who is Paul Longmore?
She won an Oscar for her role in Children of a Lesser God.
Who is Marlee Matlin?
The first law prohibiting discrimination based upon disability.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
This center was created for PWDs to help each other
What is the Center for Independent Living?
The university established for hard-of-hearing students.
What is Gallaudet University?
She was denied a license to teach in the NYC Public Schools, so started her own Disability Rights group, Disabled in Action.
Who is Judy Heumann?
In 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed this act providing permanent assistance to disabled adults.
What is the Social Security Act?
The design approach addressing the needs of people with and without disabilities
What is universal design?
The suicide doctor.
Who is Jack Kevorkian?