Partners in Time Quiz 5 - Partners in Policymaking Online Courses

1. During the 1960s and 1970s, the parent movement worked on:

Improving conditions in state institutions.

Creating community services, educational and employment opportunities.

Initiating legislation.

All of the above.

2. Many people with developmental disabilities lived in institutions in the 1950s and 1960s.

True or false?

True

False

3. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision called Brown v. Board of Education. This historic decision:

Provided federal funds to help construct new rehabilitation centers and workshops for people with developmental disabilities.

Required buildings to be accessible to people with physical disabilities.

Said schools could not discriminate on the basis of race, and that a “separate” education was not an equal education.

Said keeping people with mental retardation isolated from society in institutions violated their constitutional right to equal protection.

4. What is meant by “independent living?”

Being able to get back and forth to work on your own.

Living by yourself.

Having the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.

Being self-employed.

5. Why is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 considered the first civil rights law for people with developmental disabilities?

It authorized over $1 billion for the vocational training and placement of people with developmental disabilities.

It prohibited discrimination based on disability by any agency or employer receiving federal funds.

It ensured that children with developmental disabilities had equal access to education.

All of the above.

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