Disability Awareness & Poverty Concerns

Traumatic brain injury causes impairment in...

• Language

• Memory

• Problem-solving

• Your limbs

Cerebral palsy is what type of disability?

• Mental

• Physical

What is a common way people receive post traumatic stress disorder?

• After being in a war

• Doing nothing; it just happens

• Sleeping

• After being surrounded by violence throughout childhood

What does this ribbon represent?

• Cerebral Palsy awareness

• Autism awareness

• Traumatic Brain Injury awareness

• Cancer awareness

How many types of Autism are there?

• 1

• 3

• 5

• 7

1 in 5 Canadians develop a mental health illness today?

• True

• False

The disapproval of a person based on perceivable social characteristics that serveto distinguish them from other members of a society is called a(n)...

• Insult

• Positive Reinforcement

• Stigma

• genocide

The term "deinstitutionalization" that took place in throughout the 1960's-1980's  in which insane asylums were closed resulted in...

• "a revolving door syndrome" of chronically homeless people"

• "greyhound therapy"

• a decrease in mental ill patients

• shock therapy

Is a disability mental or physical?

The failures of deinstitutionalization include which of the following?

• Lack of political will to improve the situation

• A subculture of homeless people with mental health issues

• A lack of communal supports

• A lack of funding