Chapter 6 - High Risk Audiances Flashcards
The degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to an many people as possible. It enables people with disabilities to fully participate, use a product or device, and receive information.
Accessibility
The process of integration of native and traditional values with the dominant culture’s values.
Acculturation
Being able to physically navigate on one’s own without assistance.
Ambulatory
Allows the deaf community to communicate efficiently with each other and those who understand the language.
American Sign Language
A form of autism, in which a person has problems in areas of social interaction and communication but has normal intelligence and verbal skills.
Asperger Syndrome
A phychiatric classification for a combination of neurological, biological, social, and cognitive factors. It is sued to describe individuals who exhibit poor attention, distractibility, impulsivity, and an inability to maintain attention for an extended time period.
Attention-deficit disorder
A physical classification used to describe individuals who exhibit poor attention, distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
A complex neurobiological development disability that causes problems with social interaction and verbal and non verbal communication.
Autism
A group of disorders with similar features, ranging from mild to more serious autistic symptoms.
Autism spectrum disorder
A questionnaire for individuals with disabilities and their families to complete that will assist in understanding their needs, emergency contacts, and other pertinent information to be followed by training and frequent drills.
Disability Evacuation plan
Noncontinuous text, such as bus schedules, tables, maps and foot and drug labels.
Document Literacy
The acquisition of, and failure to use or discard, such a large number of seemingly useless possessions that it causes significant clutter and impairment to basic living activities such as mobility, cooking, cleaning, showering, or sleeping.
Hoarding
A disorder that affects people’s ability to interpret what they see and hear or to link information from different parts of the brain.
Learning Disability
An educational setting for exceptional children and for the education of children with disabilities with non-disabled children whenever realistic and possible, which must be provided by schools.
Least restrictive environment
The process of placing a student with mild to moderate disabilities into one or more general academic classes.
Mainstreaming
Being unable to physically navigate to one’s own without assistance.
Nonambulatory
A respectful lean gauge used to refer to people with disabilities that puts the persons before their disability and describes what a person had, not who a person is.
People first language
A broad term used to describe autism and several other autism spectrum disorders.
Pervasive developmental disorder
Continuous text arranged in sentences and paragraphs, such as new stories and brochures.
Prose Literacy
The ability to identify and perform computations, such as checkbooks, order forms, and bank statements.
Quantities literacy
The ability to recognize and understand ideas conveyed through visible actions or images.
Visual Literacy
Which term refers to a person who is able to physically navigate on his or her own without assistance?
Ambulatory
What popular children’s program has bilingual materials and information regarding culturally diverse support materials?
Sesame Street
Which symposium examined the status of fire and safety and made recommendations for improvements in the areas of early warning and detection, fixed fire suppression, and safe means of egress for high-risk populations in an effort to offer ways to resolve the challenges?
beyond Solutions 2000
Which of the following factors generally increases the risk of fire and injury?
Poverty
What should be included in planning and evaluating the program and its messages for high-risk populations?
Members of the high-risk population
What are children likely to do when a fire occurs in their home?
Hide under their bed
Which concept states schools must provide an educational setting for exceptional children and for the education of children with disabilities with non-disabled children whenever realistic and possible.
Least restrictive environment
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)’s Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People with Disabilities, the four elements of information necessary for evacuation are”
Notification, way-finding, use of way, and assistance
What should safety educators emphasize when teaching and promoting to the hearing impaired community?
Practicing escape plans and testing alarms.
What is the best method of dealing with an older adult who hoards.
Use task force of educators, police, fire, and mental health professionals.
What enables people with disabilities to fully participate, use a product or devise, and receive information?
Accessibility
The North American Coalition for Fire and Life Safety Education conducted a symposium in Washington D.C. to examine the fire safety challenges of those who, in the event of a fire, cannot take lifesaving actions in a timely manner, What is the name of the report they released representing the symposium’s “solutions” and vision for “shared responsibilities” for future work to implement the recommendations?
Solutions 2000
Which is the most likely cause of fires in rural communities?
Heating equipment
Which is the best chance of survival for the visually impaired during a fire emergency?
Practice fire safety.
What percentage of adults over age 70 experience some kinds of disability?
50%
Which of the following factors historically exhibit higher fire and injury morbidity and mortality rates?
Males
What can an educator do to lessen interruptions when instructing students with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
Have the student pass out handouts
Which of the following can educator use to enhance communication across diverse cultures?
Empower the community
What can an educator do to enhance instruction of a student with an autism spectrum disorder?
Provide a visual reminder of the work to be done.
Which type of language allows educators to speak and write in an accurate manner about people who happen to have a disability?
People first language.
Which can a fire and life safety educator use to provide fire and safety information to those with visual impairments?
Radio and TV
In which literacy skill level do people demonstrate higher level information-processing skills?
Level IV
Who should be included in planning and evaluating the program and its messages for high-risk populations?
Members of the high-risk population
Which concepts states schools must provide an educational setting for exceptional children and for the education of children with disabilities with nondisabled children whenever realistic as possible?
Least Restrictive environment
