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Exam 3: SCI Gait and Advocacy Flashcards

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What is an alternate name for the ASIA Exam?

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International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury examination

This is the new terminology

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Spinal cord Injury Epidemiology info from Shepherd & Dr. Bringman

Most Common Age at injury:

Average Age at injury:

Gender (percentage):

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Most Common Age at injury: 18-27

Average Age at injury: 42

Gender (percentages):

  • Males 80%,
  • Female 20%.
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When defining levels of injury, what is the difference between the Orthopedic level and the Neurological level?

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Orthopedic Level: The leve where the greates vertebral damage is found (via radiographic exam)

  • Often does not correlate with the neurological level
  • Not all spinal cord injuries have a bony injury (i.e. tumor)

Neurological level: The most caudal segment of the spinal cord with normal sensory and antigravity motor function on both sides of the body (with normal function above).

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Teteraplegia incidence

total incidence:

Incidence of Complete:

Incidence of incomplete:

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total incidence: 59%

Incidence of Complete: 14%

Incidence of incomplete: 45%

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Paraplegia incidence

total incidence:

Incidence of Complete:

Incidence of incomplete:

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total incidence: 41%

Incidence of Complete: 20%

Incidence of incomplete: 21%

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What dose ISNCSCI stand for?

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International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury

(new terminology for ASIA)

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6 spinal cord injury syndromes

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  1. Central Cord Syndrome
  2. Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome
  3. Brown-Sequard Syndrome
  4. Posterior Cord Syndrome
  5. Cauda Equina Syndrome
  6. Conus Medullaris Syndrome
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Brown-Sequard Syndrome: potential for ambulation

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Most gain some level of ambulation

  • Caused by penetrating injuries (ie gun shot or stab wounds
  • Hemisection of teh spinal cord
  • loss of movement, position sense (proprioception) on the same side; loss of pain, light touch on opposite side
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Posterior cord syndrome: potential for ambulation

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Funcitional ambulation is difficult despite strong muscles

  • Very rare
  • Motor function is intact
  • sensation is lost below the level of injury
  • (used to be associated with syphallus)
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Central Cord syndrome: potential for ambulation

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77% of these clients will ambulate

  • Hyperextension injury
  • Arms more affected than legs
  • majority of incomplete lesions result in this syndrome
    • most common clinical syndrome, but only about 10% of all SCI
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Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome: potential for ambulation

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Prognosis poor for ambulation

  • Anterior spinal artery lesion or retropulsed disc or bone frament
  • Loss of motor functions, pain and temperature sensation
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Cauda Equina syndrome: potential for ambulation

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Very good potential for ambulation

  • Injury to the L1 vertebral level and below
  • Lower motor neuron lesion
  • In most cases a complete lesion
  • Ambulation is probable (quadriceps are spared)
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Conus Medullaris syndrome: potential for ambulation

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Very good potential for ambulation

  • Injury to the sacral cord and lumbar nerve roots within the neural canal
  • Lower extremity motor and sensory loss
  • Areflexive bladder and bowel
  • Can usually ambulate
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What are 6 prognostic factors that help predict who will walk after a SCI?

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  1. AIS impairment level at 72 hours (AISA level I think)
  2. Pin prick preservation
  3. Age
  4. Syndromes
  5. LE strength at 1 month
  6. Spinal cord hemorrhage
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What are 7 impairments that may impact gait that you should treat early on in patients who may walk again?

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  1. Strength
  2. Somatosensation
  3. Spasticity
  4. Joint tightness and/or contractures
  5. Balance
  6. Cardiorespiratory function
  7. Obesity/body type
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10 principles of Neural Plasticity

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  1. use it or lose it
  2. use it and improve it
  3. specificity
  4. repetition matters
  5. intensity matters
  6. time matters
    • don’t wait to treat, but realize recovery takes time.
  7. Salience matters (how much the pt cares about the task)
  8. age matters
  9. transference
  10. interference
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Explain eveidence for somatosensory treatements (general)

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  • Findings suggest that consistant use of afferent input improves the motor output of the control mechanisms that have been impaired after SCI
  • There is evidence that a single session of afferent stimuli may be sufficient to induce neuroplastic changes in spinal cord and cortex.
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Evidence for Somatosensory treatments: Vibration

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  • localized wibration to TFL causes a stepping pattern
  • 12 sessions of whole body vibration improved gait speed, cadence, step length and intralimb coordination
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Evidence for Somatosensory treatments: Somatosensory Stimulation (SS)

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  • SS + massed practice –> cortical changes and improvements in sensation, strength, and hand function.
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What are three types of somatosensory treatments?

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  1. Vibration
  2. Somatosensory Stimulation (SS)
  3. Weightbearing
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4 Locomotor Training Modalities

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  1. Bodyweight-support Treadmill
  2. Robotic Gait Training
  3. Overground Gait Training
  4. Exoskeletons
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BWSTT stands for

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Bodyweight-Support Treadmill Training

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Details about BWSTT

How is it set up?

Where is manual facilitation required?

How many trainers are needed?

What can it be combined with?

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  • Adjustable overhead BWS attaches to harness
  • Manual facilitation at hips, knees, ankles
  • Requires up to 3-4 trainers
  • Can combine with e-stim and LE orthotics
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RGT stands for

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Robotic Gait Training

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What is a Lokomat?

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A type of robotic gait training (RGT) device

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Robotic Gait Training (RGT): Lokomat details

Indications

adjustibility

support it provides

how it is powered

what PT does

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  • Indicated for patients with any LE activity
  • Adjustible for a variety of body types
  • Trunk and hips well supported
  • motors and sensors at hip and knee oints power gait pattern
  • PT controls weight bearing, speed, joint angles, cadence, and amount of robotic assistance
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OGT stands for

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Overground Gait Training (OGT)

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Overground gait training (OGT) details (3 things)

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  1. Can be performed using bodyweight-support systems, assistive devices, orthotics/braces, FES, or any combination therein
  2. Frequently requires multiple therapists/technicians for safety and facilitation
  3. Can result in fewer repetitions due to patient fatigue
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What is FES?

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Stands for Functional Electrical Stimulation

Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) applies small electrical pulses to paralyzed muscles to restore or improve their function. FES is commonly used for exercise, but also to assist with breathing, grasping, transferring, standing and walking. FES can help some to improve bladder and bowel function. There’s evidence that FES helps reduce the frequency of pressure sores. (http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/c.mtKZKgMWKwG/b.4453425/k.27A5/Functional_Electrical_Stimulation.htm)

Seems the same as NMES to me

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What does the literature say about the use of OGT vs BWSTT vs RGT? (6)

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  1. BWSTT and RGT can provide appropriate, task-specific, high-intensity afferent input to stimulate spinal and suprasipnal plasticity
  2. Individuals with slowest gait speeds show greates timprovements
  3. Both BWSTT and RGT can increase walking speed, level of independence, and interlimb coordination
  4. OGT may be as effective as BWSTT and RGT
  5. Improvements in gait speed, distance, LE strength, quality of life, and dependence on assistive devices were similar regardless of the locomotr approach
    1. insufficient evidence to conclude that one is more effective than another
  6. Combining electrical stimulation may improve outcomes of all locomotor training
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What are four types of Robotic Exoskeletons?

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  1. ReWalk
  2. Ekso
  3. Rex
  4. Indego
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Which of the four mentioned exoskeletons is less common in the USA?

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Rex

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Which of the four mentioned exoskeletons is the only freestanding model?

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Rex

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Which of the four mentioned exoskeletons is the only one currently approved by the FDA?

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The ReWalk

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Which two of the four mentioned exoskeletons are about to receive FDA approval?

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  1. Ekso
  2. Indego

(I think)

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Characteristics of Robotic Exoskeletons:

  • How much they weigh?
  • Do they need other equipment to work?
  • Describe appropriate patients
  • 3 ways they operate
  • Speed they can go
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  1. 26-106 lbs
  2. Most have to e used with assistive device
  3. C6 and below SCI
  4. Operate in a number of ways
    1. Posture change
    2. PT or user triggered step
    3. joystick
  5. Speeds from 0.1 m/s-0.45 m/s
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Are other developers eager to produce exoskeletons?

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Yes!

Many more are being developed for future release.

Examples: Honda Walking Assist, Fortis.

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What does the literature say about Exoskeletons? (4)

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  1. Generally found to be safe, effective in getting people with SCI up and walking
  2. Monor skin abrasions common, more serious issues rare
  3. Speeds vary widely with injury level and other factors
    • flrequently mouch slower than able-bodies speeds
    • Questionable ability to reach community ambulation speeds
  4. FDA currently requires a companion for use outside of rehabilitation setting
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Potential Benefits for use of Locomotor Technologies (4)

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  1. Allows earlier interveintion with more acute/medically involved clients
  2. Allows for increased intensity and number of repetitions
  3. Allows gait training in safe, fall-free environment
  4. Promotes additional benefits besides gait
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Potential Barriers for use of Locomotor Technologies (6)

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  1. Cost
  2. Space
  3. What your facility has
  4. Staffing requirments/training
  5. Specificity of training
  6. Differences between biomechanics of walking overground vs. treadmill, robot exoskeleton
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Locomotor Technologies: Limitations in Current Literature (5 points)

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  1. Lack of large scale randomized control trials (RCT’s)
  2. Studies often done in a limited, chronic SCI population
  3. Often difficult ot match training intensity/duration
  4. Comparisons of technologies not true to how commonly used in rehab
  5. Currently-available literature does not negate clinical reasoning, judgement, and experience
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Two conclusions/take-home messages about Locomotor Training

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  • Locomotor training should begin as soon as possible, should always be challenging, with only minimal support from therapists or robotic devices, and with full patient participation
  • Aim to optimize task-specific sensory cues to facilitate spinal and supraspinal plasticity, including arm movemenets and appropriate manual cuing
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Who declared disabled persons a “menace to the happiness . . . of the community.”

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Alabama legislature

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Who called disabled person “unfit for citizenship.”

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A Mississippi statue

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Who madated segration [of disabled people] to relieve society of “the heavy economic and moral losses arrising from the existence at large of these unfortunate persons.”

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A Texas law

46
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Who wrote the hand-out we had called “A Little History Worth Knowing”?

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Timothy M. Cook

47
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Was government mandated segregation, exclusion, and degradation of people with disabilities limited to the South?

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No

In every state the policy was to keep [disabled persons] out of society

48
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Where were disabled people officially termed “anti-social beings”?

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Pennsylvania

49
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Where were disabled people considered “unfitted for companionship with other children?

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Washington

50
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Where were disabled people called a “blight on mankind”?

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Vermont

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Where were disabled people called a “danger to the race”?

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Wisconsin

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Where were disabled people called “a misfortue both to themselves and to the public”?

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Kansas

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Where were disabled people required to be “segregate[d] from the world”?

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Indiana

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In which state did a government report say that a “defect . . . woulnds our citizenry a thousand times more than any plague”?

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Utah

55
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Where did disabled people simply not have the “rights and liberties of normal people”?

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South Dakota

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Have physicians, health workers, and social workers been part of segregation of disabled persons?

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State officials actively inculcated fear of disabled persons, especially retarded persons, directed their identification and removal form the community, and coerced the assistance of physicians, health workers, social works, and a variety of others to do so.

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Who was the Supreme Court justice who wrote an opinoin that upheld the constitutionality of a Virginioa law atthorizing the involontary sterilization of disabled persons, ratified the view of disabled persons as “a menace.”

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Justic Oliver Wendall Holmes

He justaposed the country’s “best citizens” (nondisabled persons) with those who “sap the strength of the state” (disabled people), and to avoid “being swamped with incompetence,” ruled “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.”

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What should you do next time someone tries to explain to you that handicappism is a more “benign” form of discrimination?

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  1. Tell them how the segregation and exclusion of people with disabilities all began.
  2. Tell them how, historically, a lot of important decision-makers passed laws sending disabled persons away.
  3. Lastly tell them progress is being made.
    • Congress has enacted the Architectural and Transportation Barriers ACt, The Rehabiltation Act, the Education for All Handicapped Children ACti, Air Carriers Access Act, Fair Housing Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. These laws require integration.
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What are the 6 laws passed by Congress that require integration of disabled people that were mentioned in our hand out (and what was the date each was passed)

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  1. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Act (ABA) (1968 as just the Architectural Barriers Act)
  2. The Rehabiltation Act (for vocational issues) (1973)
  3. Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1975)
  4. Air Carriers Access Act (1986)
  5. Fair Housing Act (1968, 1988 disability was added)
  6. Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
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Date Congress Passed: Architectural and Transportation Barriers Act (ABA)

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(1968 as just the Architectural Barriers Act)

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Date Congress Passed: The Rehabiltation Act (and what did it address?)

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1973

for vocational issues

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Date Congress Passed: Education for All Handicapped Children Act

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1975

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Date Congress Passed: Air Carriers Access Act

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1986

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Date Congress Passed: Fair Housing Act

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1968

1988 disability was added

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Date congress passed: Americans with Disabilities Act

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1990

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What was the advocacy speaker’s name?

What level was his injury?

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Mark Johnson

C5/6

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What did Mr. Johnson suggest we do when buying a house in order to advocate for disabled people

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Refuse to buy it if it is not ADA compliant

(all houses should be bulit ADA compliant from the begining in his opinion)

Bringman class fall 2015 (32 decks)

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