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Disability Awareness & Poverty Concerns

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Traumatic brain injury causes impairment in...

a)

Language

b)

Memory

c)

Problem-solving

d)

Your limbs

2.

Cerebral palsy is what type of disability?

a)

Mental

b)

Physical

3.

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

a)

After being in a war

b)

Doing nothing; it just happens

c)

Sleeping

d)

After being surrounded by violence throughout childhood

4.

What does this ribbon represent?

a)

Cerebral Palsy awareness

b)

Autism awareness

c)

Traumatic Brain Injury awareness

d)

Cancer awareness

5.

How many types of Autism are there?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

5

d)

7

6.

1 in 5 Canadians develop a mental health illness today?

a)

True

b)

False

7.

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

a)

Insult

b)

Positive Reinforcement

c)

Stigma

d)

genocide

8.

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

a)

"a revolving door syndrome" of chronically homeless people"

b)

"greyhound therapy"

c)

a decrease in mental ill patients

d)

shock therapy

9.

Is a disability mental or physical?

(a)  

10.

The failures of deinstitutionalization include which of the following?

a)

Lack of political will to improve the situation

b)

A subculture of homeless people with mental health issues

c)

A lack of communal supports

d)

A lack of funding

11.

What does the term "hidden homelessness" refer to?

a)

people who do not show up in official statistics counts

b)

those who find a temporary solution by staying with friends/family/car

c)

"squatters"

d)

none of the above

12.

How much money does homelessness cost the tax payers on average each year?

a)

$1 billion/year

b)

$3 billion/year

c)

$5 billion/year

d)

$7 billion/year

13.

According to the OHRC, the term "Disability" is to be interpreted broadly and includes past, present and perceived conditions. 

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The term "Defensive Design" does which of the following?

a)

Limits behaviours, exclude & restrict

b)

Is very intentional & deliberate in intent

c)

Asks the question: "Who Belongs here? Who is this space for?

d)

Is an act of systemic discrimination

15.

What is NOT a reason homeless people reject staying in shelters...

a)

The choice of food

b)

not allowing pets

c)

line ups are too long

d)

disease & outbreaks