Accessibility at Brock
This Brock office supports students with disabilities by providing accommodation plans and support with advocacy.
What is SAS?
Accessibility only benefits people with disabilities.
This is when someone is treated unfairly because they have a disability.
What is Discrimmination?
This word means making places, information, and services easier for everyone to use.
What is Accessibliity?
What year did National AccessAbility Week begin
2017
This Brock office provides support, education, and assistance related to human rights, harassment, discrimination, equity, and accessibility.
What is HRE?
A disability must be visible to be real.
False.
This provincial law protects people with disabilities from discrimmination.
What is the Ontario Human Rights Code?
This Ontario law was passed in 2005 to help make the province more accessible for people with disabilities.
What is AODA?
What is the legislation that introduced National AccessAbility Week
Accessible Canada Act
This Brock process helps students receive individualized academic supports that promote equal access, fairness, and inclusion.
What is an accommodation plan?
Captions can help people in noisy spaces, people learning a language, and people who process information better visually.
True
AODA stands for this Ontario accessibility law.
What is the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act?
This phrase became popular in disability rights movements and means disabled people should be included in decisions that affect them.
What is "Nothing about us without us"?
What year does the AccessAble Canada Act aim to ensure Canada is accessible by?
2040
This person helps students to get access to technologies that reduce barriers in the classroom.
What is the Assistive Technologist?
Accommodations give students an unfair advantage.
False.
Under human rights law, organizations have a duty to accommodate disability-related needs up to this point.
What is Undue Hardship?
This model of disability focuses on removing barriers in society rather than viewing disability as only an individual problem.
What is the Social Model of Disability?
Model for studying and thinking about Disability that says that disability is caused by the way society is organized, not by a person's individual differences or impairment. It looks at ways of removing barriers that restrict life for disabled people.
What is the Social Model of Disability
This means designing courses, classrooms, and services to be usable by as many students as possible from the beginning.
What is Universal Design?
Accessibility is everyone’s responsibility, not just the responsibility of disabled people.
True
This means a school or workplace may need to change a rule, process, or environment to reduce disability-related barriers.
What is Duty to Accommodate?
This famous 1990 protest involved disabled activists leaving their wheelchairs and mobility devices to climb the steps of the U.S. Capitol, drawing attention to inaccessible public spaces.
What is the Capital Crawl?
This Paralympic athlete won 19 wheelchair marathons, 2 Olympic medals, 3 world titles and 9 gold medals a the Pan Am Games. He spent 2 years travelling across the world by wheelchair.
Who is Rick Hansen