Landmark Disability Legislation

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Test your knowledge on the pivotal laws and events that have shaped the landscape of disability rights in the United States. This quiz covers essential legislation affecting individuals with disabilities, from the early 20th century to modern laws.

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Key federal laws like the Rehabilitation Act
Influential figures in the disability rights movement
Significant events that sparked change

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Vocational services such as vocational guidance, training, occupational adjustment, prosthetics, and placement services for civilians with physical disabilities only were established as a result of which federal law?

Section 502, Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Civilian Rehabilitation Act of 1920

The Randall-Shepard Act of 1936 allowed for these individuals to be licensed to operate vending stands in Federal buildings.

Persons with Visual Impairments

Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

Which disability population did the Barden-LaFollette Act of 1943 expand services to on a limited basis?

Persons with Intellectual Disability

Persons with Emotional-Behavioral Disorders

Which law created a Federal Board of Vocational Education to provide rehabilitation services to soldiers with disabilities?

The National Defense Act of 1916

The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917

In 1945, this law decreed a week in October as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, which was changed to National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month in 1988.

The Wagner-O'Day Act

PL-176

President Lincoln authorized this institution, formerly known as Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind, to confer college degrees to deaf graduates in 1864.

National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Gallaudet University

Which U.S. President originally vetoed the law that that is now known as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard M. Nixon

Which event is believed to have sparked the Independent Living Movement?

The Center for Independent Living, funded by the Rehabilitation Administration, was opened at Berkeley, CA in 1962

The 1978 protest of inaccessible public transportation by disability activists at Denver, CO

This activist is often referred to as the "Godfather of the Americans with Disabilities Act."

Justin W. Dart, Jr.

George H.W. Bush, Sr.

In 1975, this legislation declared that children with disabilities could not be excluded from public school on the basis of their disability.

Brown v. Board of Education

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

What is an Ugly Law?

City ordinances making it illegal for people who are diseased, maimed, or deformed to appear in public.

Any law that inadvertently oppresses persons with disabilities.

This 1999 law, commonly referred to as Ticket to Work, allows persons needing health care to work and not lose medical benefits.

The Works Incentives Improvements Act

The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act

Which Supreme Court decision extended ADA protections to state prison inmates?

Washington v. Glucksberg, 1996

United States v. Georgia, 2006

The Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 broadened the definition of disability by requiring:

Disability determination for persons whose disabilities are episodic or in remission be based on their functional limitations when the condition is active

Disability determination for persons who use eyeglasses, canes, and walkers be based on their functional limitations when they are unaided by these devices

In Bragdon v. Abbott (1998) what did the Supreme Court declare to be a major life activity under the ADA?

Reproduction

Exercise

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