Diverse Abilities

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Across
  1. 1. Americans with Disabilities Act
  2. 4. People's abilities are varied and the different abilities all have value.
  3. 6. ADA's author. Brother to #8.
  4. 8. 1st state to enact a handicap parking law.
  5. 12. Under the act, all federal agencies were required, as much as was reasonably possible, to ensure that physically disabled people had access to Federal facilities.
  6. 13. Physical/mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities
Down
  1. 1. Founded in Hartford, CT. First school for children with disabilities anywhere in western hemisphere.
  2. 2. Developmental disability caused by differences in brain.
  3. 3. One of the first US laws giving protection to people with disabilities.
  4. 5. Federal agency that was established via Civil Rights Act of 1964 to administer and enforce civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.
  5. 7. Founded Special Olympics (last name)
  6. 9. Sporting events for people with disabilities.
  7. 10. The action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure.
  8. 11. Another of ADA's authors.