Deck 12: Ableism: Disability Does Not Mean Inability

Question 1

What is ableism?

A) A barrier that limits opportunities for a person to participate in an activity
B) The belief that people with disabilities are inferior to able-bodied people
C) Established laws, customs and practices that allow systematic discrimination against someone with a disability
D) Products and environment designed to be available to everyone

Answer 1

The belief that people with disabilities are inferior to able-bodied people

Question 2

What was the first public acknowledgement that people with disabilities were a minority and in need of civil rights protections?

A) The Rehabilitation Act
B) Section 504
C) Americans with Disabilities Act
D) The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program

Answer 2

The Rehabilitation Act

Question 3

What Act provides people with disabilities legal recourse against discrimination?

A) Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
B) The Rehabilitation Act
C) Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHC)
D) The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Answer 3

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Question 4

Batavia (2001) argues that people with disabilities should not be considered an oppressed minority. Which of the following was not an argument against classifying people with disabilities as an oppressed minority?

A) The Americans with Disabilities Act advanced the opportunities of the handicapped so much they no longer qualified as an oppressed minority.
B) People with handicaps are better off in the U.S than in the rest of the world.
C) A disability has a significant impact on a person's daily life.
D) People with disabilities are actually part of the majority because everyone has some type of disability.

Question 5

Which is not a historical perspective of people with disabilities?

A) A subhuman organism
B) Object of dread
C) A diseased organism
D) D. Curious human beings

Question 6

What is the societal promotion of negative beliefs that tends to portray people with disabilities as deviant or incompetent?

A) Institutional ableism
B) Cultural ableism
C) Normalization
D) Ableism

Question 7

Which historical perception of people with disabilities defined the disability as being a temporary condition that could be cured with the right treatment?

A) As an "Object of Dread"
B) As a "Subhuman Organism"
C) As an "Object of Pity"
D) As a "Diseased Organism"

Question 8

Several groups in the disabled community have refused to participate in telethons and other fundraisers because they feel it contributes to the perception that they are

A) Objects of ridicule
B) Objects of pity
C) Menaces to society
D) Subhuman organisms

Question 9

The deaf community is often defined as a deaf culture. Which of the following is not an attribute that must be shared by all members of a culture?

A) Formal acknowledgement and identification by the dominant culture
B) Network of voluntary in group social organizations
C) Shared historical experiences
D) A common language

Question 10

What is the clearest and most positive example of a disability culture?

A) Children's stories and myths
B) Telethons that raise money for disabled children
C) P.T. Barnum's Circus
D) The Deaf community

Question 11

What is often the result of a group of people coming together who have shared histories, languages, in group social organizations, and unique artifacts?

A) They become codependent and cannot succeed.
B) They seclude themselves from the rest of society because of ridicule.
C) A cultural group is developed.
D) They are seen as objects of dread.

Question 12

The deaf community advocates for a bilingual/bicultural approach in classrooms educating deaf children and youth. Which of the following is not a reason for this approach?

A) It challenges the perspective that deafness is a deficit.
B) It encourages people with deafness to maintain childish behaviors rather than learn to live independently.
C) It helps deaf students learn Standard English.
D) It benefits hearing student to learn about deaf culture and history.

Question 13

What are prejudiced attitudes and actions towards people with disabilities based on our assumptions about them?

A) Individual ableism
B) Institutional ableism
C) Cultural Ableism
D) A culture

Question 14

What does the medical model of disability assume?

A) That all problems a person with disabilities has stems from that disability.
B) That people with disabilities are victims of their disability
C) That people with disabilities are helpless and dependent on others.
D) That it is a biological problem and a cure should be found.

Question 15

Erroneous assumptions are made about people with disabilities. What assumption is being made when a person with a disability is not allowed to pursue an educational course of study of his or her choice?

A) That a person's self-concept is based on his or her disability
B) That all barriers to learning will stem from the disability
C) That a person with a disability will always need assistance
D) That a person's disability should be cured before pursuing higher learning

Question 16

What group of children is most likely to be overrepresented in special education with a diagnosis of mental retardation in at least 45 states?

A) Asian American/Pacific Islander children
B) Black children
C) Latino children
D) White children

Question 17

What is more likely to be a consequence for black children labeled emotional disturbance than for white children?

A) They are more likely to end up in the juvenile justice system.
B) They are less likely to end up in the juvenile justice system.
C) They are more likely to be placed in mainstream classes than white children.
D) They are more likely to be suspended from schools.

Question 18

What is a disability?

A) A restriction of ability or activity caused by an impairment
B) An environmental or attitudinal barrier that limits a person's opportunities
C) Policies and practices that make life conditions for those with a disability as good as those of the average citizen
D) The determination of a person's abilities based on comparison to an able-bodied person

Question 19

Phillipa uses a wheel chair to get from place to place. She is going to see an accountant to get her taxes done. Unfortunately, she cannot get into the office because there are stairs but no ramps to get into the building. This barrier causes her to have a(n)

A) Disability
B) Deviancy
C) Handicap
D) Ableism

Question 20

What was the purpose of confining people with disabilities to hospices in the fourth through the sixteenth centuries?

A) To protect the world from the wickedness of deviant human beings
B) To rehabilitate people with disabilities and return them to society
C) To protect and care for people with disabilities
D) To teach people with disabilities a trade that they could use upon returning to society

Question 21

In early twentieth century American cities where were people with disabilities most likely to live?

A) With the family
B) In religious facilities
C) In hospices
D) In custodial institutions

Question 22

What did the eugenics movement in the United States seek to do to disabled people in the 1930s?

A) To release them from institutions
B) To sterilize them
C) To rehabilitate them so they could contribute to society
D) To use them for medical experiments

Question 23

What usually happened to patients in institutions when states passed deinstitutionalization laws?

A) They were moved to nursing homes.
B) They returned to their families.
C) They were declared capable of taking care of themselves and sent into the community.
D) They were sent to trade schools so they could find jobs.

Question 24

Cities prevented the establishment of group homes in certain neighborhood by all but which of the following ways?

A) By passing density laws
B) By requiring people with disabilities to live at home with their family
C) By restricting the number of group homes in a certain area
D) By passing so-called ugly laws

Question 25

What is the most inexpensive way to house and care for people with disabilities?

A) Nursing home
B) State institutions
C) At home with a high level of care
D) Community Settings

Question 26

How does the United States financially support people with disabilities who want to live independently?

A) By providing a Supplemental Security Income as long as the person has no other means of support
B) By requiring business to hire one disabled person for every twenty-five workers employed
C) By providing cash benefits regardless of their financial resources
D) By providing benefits based on the financial resources of the recipients

Question 27

What is the purpose of universal design?

A) To create products and environments capable of being used by all people
B) To provide equal unemployment financial supports for both disabled and able-bodied persons
C) To only improve the community for people with disabilities
D) To design products for people with disabilities that can be bought for the same price as products for the non-disabled

Question 28

According to a survey by the Kessler Foundation (2015), why do 68.4% of working age adults with disabilities choose not to work?

A) Buildings are not accessible.
B) Employers refuse to hire them.
C) They would lose their Social Security benefits.
D) They are often paid less than their co-workers who have similar responsibilities.

Question 29

What was one purpose of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHC) in 1975?

A) To restrict the education of students with disabilities to separate facilities and schools
B) To define the term "learning disabilities"
C) To allow schools to set up special education programs
D) To educate children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment

Question 30

What was the outcome of the Honig v. Doe decision?

A) Students with disabilities must be educated in their least restrictive environment
B) Children with disabilities have a right to a free and appropriate public education.
C) Regular classrooms must adapt to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
D) Students with emotional disabilities have a right to receive an education and could not be expelled because of their behaviors.

Question 31

What is a minority group and what are the arguments for and against declaring people with disabilities as being a minority group?

Question 32

Explain three of the seven historic perceptions of people with disabilities and give examples of how these perceptions might still be present today.

Question 33

What are five assumptions about people with disabilities and why are they inaccurate?

Question 34

How are minority students, especially African American children misrepresented in special education?

Question 35

Explain how people with disabilities are discriminated against in the areas of housing, jobs, mobility/accessibility, health care and education.