Principles of Special Education

2. A civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.
5. The summer camp that helped spark the disability rights movement, featured in Crip Camp.
6. Everyone gets the support they need.
7. The 'Father of the Independent Living Movement,' he fought for accessibility at UC Berkeley.
8. A law ensuring special education services for eligible students.
10. This government agency was created in 1979 and oversees special education policies.
12. A principle stating that students with disabilities should learn in settings with their non-disabled peers as much as possible.
14. Ensures that students with disabilities receive education at no cost to families.
16. Using respectful and _____ terms like “a student with autism” instead of “an autistic student”.
19. A key leader in the disability rights movement and organizer of the 504 sit-ins.
20. Represented by the color yellow on the Disability Pride Flag.
21. Part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, ensuring accommodations for students with disabilities in schools and public spaces.

1. Ongoing issue with the way people with disabilities are portrayed in film, television, and news.
3. A social movement advocating for equal rights, accessibility, and inclusion.
4. A Supreme Court case that raised the standard for IEPs, ensuring meaningful progress.
9. The model that believes that specific physical and social characteristics should be bred out of the human race.
11. A former institution in Maine that housed individuals with disabilities, now remembered as a symbol of deinstitutionalization.
13. A tiered system for identifying and supporting struggling students.
15. A professional organization dedicated to improving special education.
17. The site of the longest 504 sit-in, where activists protested for disability rights.
18. Disability Pride Month in honor of the passing of ADA.