Legislation
Law guarantees Americans with Disabilities unrestricted access to public buildings, equal opportunity in employment, and equal access to government services.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)?
Buildings in New York City designed by Ellen Baxter to house individuals with mental illnesses alongside mentally healthy tenants.
What is Broadway Housing Communities?
Disability as a pathology located within the mind or body of an individual which a morally responsible woman seeks to prevent or cure with the assistance of experts.
What is the Medical Model of Disability?
Negative self talk or the downward spiral and only focus is on the inevitability of psychiatric disability
What is Decline Narrative?
"Autistic Community" is an example of...
What is Identity-First Language?
Title of the ADA that requires that State and local governments give people with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from all of their programs, services and activities (e.g. public educations, employment, transportation, recreation, health care, social services, courts, voting, and town meetings)
What is Title II- State and Local Government Activities
Passage of Americans with Disabilities Act
Who is George H.W. Bush?
Disability is created by society’s barriers and discrimination
What is the Social Model of Disability?
The way individuals position themselves in relation to groups they do not belong to or groups that are perceived as different from their own
What is out-group alignment?
"person with a spinal cord injury" is an example of...
What is Person-First Language?
Legislation states that those with disabilities can not be excluded from the participation, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance such as hospital, schools, welfare and government offices
What is The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504)?
Key figure in the Independent Living Movement
Who is Ed Roberts?
The interaction of biological and social factors that either create or fail to prevent disability
What is Social Construction of Disability?
Individuals engage in various strategies to present a favorable image of themselves to others; aligning oneself with a particular group
What is in-group alignment?
As the disability movement came into its own after the passage of the ADA, advocates asserted that individuals with disabilities are people first, equal and deserving of the same rights and treatments as everyone else.
What is person-first language?
Title of ADA that provides qualified individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from the full range of employment-related opportunities available to others
What is Title I- Employment?
A Belgian town with a unique approach to mental health care, where individuals with mental illnesses are placed with families for care and support.
What is Geel?
Advocates an identity based on disability, people with disabilities are members of an oppressed minority
What is the Minority Group Model of Disability?
Leaving a designated area… include[ing] running away or escaping a caregiver or parent due to avoiding or seeking stimuli in the environment
What is elopement and wandering?
Negative, disempowering words like “victim” or “sufferer.”
What are "words to avoid"?
Title of ADA that covers businesses and nonprofit service providers that are public accommodations, privately operated entities offering certain types of courses and examinations, privately operated transportation, and commercial facilities
What is Title III- Public Accommodations?
Presidency sparked protests at Gallaudet University
Who is Elizabeth Zinser?
To create a society that would accommodate for our differences
What is Social Deconstruction of Disability?
Legislation that provides specially designed instruction, no cost to the parent, instruction in the classroom, home, in hospitals and institutions, and instruction in Physical Education
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Golden rule when addressing or referring to a person with a disability
What is "Always ask if you are not sure!"