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True or False: People with disabilities experience disability-related biases in the workplace
True
True or False: Disability is a physicalmental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities
True
What is Ableism?
Biases from people with disabilities
Biases based on ideas of "normal" physical/mental abilities
This is not real
To be able to do anything
What is disability pride for you
various answers
Who is Ed Roberts?
co-founder of the first CIL in Berkley, California
all of the above
was told he was "Too disabled" to work
the father of independent living movement
What is the Independent Living Movement
all of the above
Started in the early 1970s in California
The movement created the first Center for Independent Living
Started by Ed Roberts and others with disabilities
What are some assumptions we are taught about people with disabilities?
various answers
What are your strengths?
various answers
Rephrase: Handicapped person, differently abled person
Person with a disability
Rephrase: Handicapped parking, Handicapped bathrooms
Accessible parking, accessible bathrooms
Rephrase: That's crazy and insane
all of the above
That's bonkers
That's wild
That's ridiculous
What is person first language?
focuses on the person rather than the disability
puts the person first
all of the above
"Person with a disability"
What is identity first language?
disability is seen as part of a personal identity
emphasizes disability as an identity
"Disabled person"
all of the above
What are some tips to being an ally?
various answers
Why is it important to have a circle of support?
various answers
