ADA
Distinguished Disabilities
Workforce Partners
Career Development & Skills
Cowboy/Western
100

The ADA prohibits this action towards people with disabilities in the areas of employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications, and access to state and local government programs and services.

What is discrimination?

100

This "Man Behind the Mouse" entrepreneur responsible for the creation of "The Happiest Place on Earth" had Dyslexia:

Who is Walt Disney?

100

This workforce collaboration was signed into law on July 22, 2014, Acronym: WIOA

What is Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act?

100

This type of training program focuses on providing individuals with disabilities the skills needed to perform specific job tasks or roles.

What is job-specific training?

100

This term refers to the skilled roper and horseman of the American West, often associated with cattle ranching.

What is a cowboy?

200

This American President signed the ADA into law.

Who is George H.W. Bush?

200

This Twitter Tycoon, currently the wealthiest person in the world is on the Autism Spectrum.

Who is Elon Musk?

200

This WIOA partner is the state's lead agency serving individuals with disabilities, and helping them achieve full community participation through employment, education and independent living opportunities.

What is Title IV - Illinois Division of Rehabilitation Services?

200

This services involves evaluating an individual's strengths, skills and interests to help determine suitable career paths.

What is vocational assessment?

200

This genre of music, often associated with cowboys and the open range, is characterized by its use of guitars, fiddles, and yodeling.

What is country music?

300

This part of the ADA protects people with disabilities from employment discrimination.

What is Title 1?

300

This 32nd President of the United States was wheelchair bound due to complications from Polio.

Who is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

300

This WIOA partner is a state agency that people most often reach out to after losing their job, but this partner also offers resume assistance, mock interviews, employment related workshops, and hiring events?

What is Title III - Illinois Department of Employment Security, Wagner-Peyser?

300

This term refers to the assistance provided to individuals with disabilities to help them build or improve their job-seeking skills, such as resume writing and interview preparation.

What is job readiness training?

300

Directed by John Ford, this 1956 film starred John Wayne as a tough U.S. Marshal who tracks down a kidnapped girl in a wild and rugged terrain.

What is "The Searchers"?

400

These individuals are protected by the ADA.

A. He/She/They has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of his/her/their major life activities;

B. He/She/They has a record of such an impairment; or

C. He/She/They is regarded as having such an impairment; or

D. All the Above

D. All the Above

400

This 19th Century German Composer, most famous for his 5th and 9th symphonies, after becoming deaf in his mid-20's, cut off the legs of his piano to hear the vibrations on the floor to be able to continue to compose music.

Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?

400

This WIOA partner, located in the Career OneStop Center, provides workforce development programs for adults and dislocated workers, and youth programs providing training in short term-schooling, high yield field occupations.

What is Title I - Workforce Development?

400

This approach to career development emphasizes finding and creating job opportunities that integrate individuals with disabilities into mainstream employment environments.

What is competitive integrated employment?

400

This dance style, popular in country and western music, involves intricate footwork and is often performed in lines.

What is line dancing?

500

This is the minimal number of employees at a business requiring them to implement ADA employment provisions.

What is 15 employees?

500

This author best known for "The Old Man and the Sea" experienced mental health issues including severe depression, Paranoid Delusions & Bipolar Disease.

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

500

This WIOA partner, often located in community colleges, provides services to adults that need to improve their literacy, English-language and basic skills.

What is Title II - Adult Education and Family Literacy?

500

This process involves coordinating with employers to ensure that they understand and are prepared to provide necessary accommodations for employees with disabilities.

What is employer outreach and education?

500

This type of hat, characterized by its wide brim and high crown, is a staple cowboy attire.

What is a Stetson?