The key factor that can help a low vision individual
What is contrast?
A term used for brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative prejudicial slights and insults toward any group
What are microagressions?
True or False: New drivers have higher accident rates than those with experience
Children with disabilities’ need for the early attainment of motor and social skills and the integral role of their families in supporting them were considered to influence their participation in this
What is physical activity?
The discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities or who are perceived to have disabilities
What is ableism?
The running slope that ramps shall not be steeper than
What is 1:12?
What notable author identified these needed changes to the community: education of doctors (disability is a characteristic, not an identity); people with disabilities need to advocate for themselves more; further protecting civil rights of people with disabilities; more education and health research about disabilities; and more positive images, publicity, and dialog of disabilities in the media
Who is Maragret A. Nosek? (Pathways for Change section of the article "Overcoming the Odds: The Health of Women With Physical Disabilities in the United States")
By this age, drivers' vehicle fatality rate is nine times those aged 25-69
What is 85?
In parallel with the Olympic Games, this event is a periodic series of international multi-sport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities
What is the Paralympic Games?
Equitable use, flexibility in use, simple and intuitive use, perceptible information, tolerance for error, low physical effort, and size & space for approach & use are the seven principles of this
What is universal design?
The minimum width halls need to be
What is 36" wide?
In Silverstein's "Anatomy of Change: The Need for Effective Disability Policy Change Agents," these three things can lead to true happiness
Interstate restrooms, parking spaces, and traffic lights are examples of this
What is community responsibility?
Using special wheelchairs and very little protection, the players in this sport play full-contact competitive rugby, using rules only slightly altered to accommodate their limitations
What is murderball or wheelchair rugby? (either answer is correct)
These three core things are facilitators for environmental accessibility and principles for universal design (per Dr. Claire Yang)
What is access, activity, and participation?
The minimum width of door openings
What is 32 inches?
What is the Identity Model?
Independence and autonomy contribute to this
What is quality of life?
In this year, the Paralympics were held in the same city and venues as the Summer Olympics for the first time
What is 1988? (Seoul games)
The core principles of this event include respect for human dignity, non-discrimination, full participation, social inclusion, equality of opportunity, and accessibility
What is the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)?
The maximum frequency of audible signals
What is 1500 Hz?
Reconceptualizing, reprioritizing, and recalibrating are three key processes mentioned in this article
What is "Response Shift Theory: Important Implications for Measuring Quality of Life in People with Disability"?
This is something that can weaken driving skills by causing drowsiness, sapping energy, slowing reaction times and affecting vision
What is medication?
Over 99% of nonprivate golf facilities with a website in this state did not include accessibility announcements on their hosted website
What is Indiana?
The background forces behind this movement are deinstitutionalization, civil rights movement, "self help" movement, and demedicalization
What is the Independent Living Movement?