It's the Law (sorta)
This is the act prohibited programs receiving federal funding from discriminating on the basis of disability.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
Adopted by the United Nations, this was the first human rights treaty of the 21st century, and the most relevant to the field of disability.
What is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)?
In viewing quality of life through a family systems framework, this component is viewed as the input (the unique elements of each family).
What are family characteristics?
This is intentional action taken to positively affect another's life.
What is intervention?
This option for employment for individuals with ID/DD is a viewed as an alternative vocational service for the unemployable or those needing training before employment.
What are sheltered workshops?
This ruling held that unjustified segregation on the basis of disability was discriminatory.
What is Olmstead vs L.C.?
Self-advocacy can be viewed as these two things.
What is a social movement and a set of skills?
When parents act as advocates for services and supports, they often align under a number of classifications, including this one, where the parent emphasizes the importance of "knowing their child".
What is the intuitive approach?
These are conditions that are known to prompt a particular behavior.
What are antecedents?
Individuals with this syndrome, an imprinting disorder, are missing chromosome 15 gene activity that normally comes from the mother.
What is Angelman syndrome?
This is the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990?
These kind of reports to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities come not from the treaty nation, but from organizations within that nation providing perspectives of how human rights may not be being respected, and are extremely important.
What are shadow reports (or alternative reports)?
In viewing quality of life through a family systems framework, this component is viewed as the output (the ways that families address their needs).
What are family functions?
These are the two main types of diagnoses we talked about being made with reference to developmental disability.
What are primary (etiological) diagnosis and classification diagnosis?
This type of postsecondary transition program model includes inclusive academic & social aspects, with added academic and life-skills support.
What is the mixed/hybrid model?
This is the infamous finding that upheld that states could sterilize people considered (at the time) mentally defective.
What is Buck vs Bell?
This term represents the particular vulnerability to discrimination of specific groups based on the combination of factors affecting them.
What is intersectional discrimination?
According to the Beach Center, this is the conditions in which the family's needs are met , spending time together, and doing things they believe are important.
What is Family Quality of Life?
These kinds of interventions include contingent electric shock, time-out in seclusion, physical/mechanical restraint, and various other techniques focused on punishment.
What are intrusive interventions (procedures)?
Generally accepted practices in transition planning include this as one of the components: the individual's perspective, as well as his/her wishes, dreams, and goals for the future, and his/her preferred ways of doing things.
What is self-determination?
This ruling declared unconstitutional the practice of denying education to individuals based on (too low) mental age.
What is PARC vs Commonwealth?
When defining (or promoting) self-advocacy with regard to disability, these are the four major components we discussed.
What are knowledge of self, knowledge of rights, communication of knowledge of self and rights, and leadership?
When discussing the education/intervention quality of life area, this US mandate requires the development of individualized education programs (IEPs), and (in Part C) requires early intervention and individualized family service plans (ISFPs).
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004?
These are systematic experimental manipulations that attempt to reveal functional relationships between environmental events and problem behaviors.
What are experimental functional analyses?
This approach to employment for individuals with ID/DD includes discovery, job search plans, employer contact & negotiation, as well as post-placement support.
What is customized employment?