Question 1

Which of the following has policies,practices,and strategies that support the belief that employment is the desired outcome for people with disabilities and that the focus should be on helping participants reach their full work potential?

Accepted Answer

A) Employment First 
B) school-to-work transitions 
C) workplace accommodations 
D) earnings replacement

Question 2

Which of the following scenarios describes the statistical difference between disabilities in the male and female senior populations?

Accepted Answer

A) Elderly women are more likely than their male counterparts to have a disability,at 43 percent. 
B) Elderly men are more likely than their female counterparts to have a disability,at 43 percent. 
C) Elderly women are more likely than their male counterparts to have a disability,at 63 percent. 
D) Elderly men are more likely than their female counterparts to have a disability,at 63 percent.

Question 3

Under the In Unison initiatives,Canadian governments aim to help people with a disability become fully integrated into society by way of three categories of supports or building blocks.What are those three building blocks?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Under the In Unison initiatives,Canadian governments aim...

Question 4

The federal government's Canada Pension Plan Disability Program ensures a rapid reinstatement of benefits to people who try to work,but then have to quit their job for a specific reason.What is that reason?

Accepted Answer

A) they are discriminated against by the management 
B) their disability prevents them from working 
C) they get pregnant 
D) the workplace is unable to offer the necessary accommodations

Question 5

You're at a community meeting and the presenting concern is the growing number of citizens in your community with disabilities.Over and over again you hear the following type of statement: "Our goal should be to help them fit in as normally as possible." Which perspective would best describe this statement?

Accepted Answer

A) ecological perspective 
B) functional limitations perspective 
C) impairment perspective 
D) anti-oppressive perspective

Question 6

What percentage of Canadian adults have a severe disability?

Accepted Answer

A) 3 percent 
B) 6 percent 
C) 9 percent 
D) 12 percent

Question 7

From an impairment perspective,where is the cause of a disability found?

Accepted Answer

A) the environment 
B) political structures of society 
C) a person's biology 
D) sociological structures of society

Question 8

Which of the following scenarios describes an episodic disability?

Accepted Answer

A) Samantha: a six-year-old aboriginal child who was recently diagnosed with asthma 
B) Jordan: a thirty-two-year-old male who was recently diagnosed with HIV 
C) Mark: a ten-year-old boy who has been playing soccer for the past six months despite his diagnosis of ADHD 
D) Helen: an eighty-one-year-old grandmother who has been diagnose with diabetes.

Question 9

The popularity of eugenics at the turn of the twentieth century was accompanied by which view regarding people with a mental disability?

Accepted Answer

A) They were more intelligent than people who weren't disabled. 
B) They were a danger to themselves and to others. 
C) They were capable of living independently in the community. 
D) They were good candidates for being rehabilitated and contributing to society.

Question 10

Which of the following influential documents predated the enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Accepted Answer

A) Improving Social Security in Canada 
B) In Unison: A Canadian Approach to Disability Issues 
C) Mainstream 
D) Obstacles

Question 11

In 1981,the Parliamentary Special Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped released a ground-breaking report that called attention to the barriers that were preventing people with disabilities from accessing community resources and opportunities.What is the name of this report?

Accepted Answer

A) Barriers to Opportunity 
B) In Unison 
C) Obstacles 
D) Mainstream 1981

Question 12

Today,a disability is defined not so much by a person's physical or mental impairment but by which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) a person with a disability's ability to accept their impairment 
B) a society's ability to accept differences between people 
C) a person with a disability's ability to fit into society 
D) a society's ability to ensure equal access to mainstream resources

Question 13

The evolution of social work practice within the disability community parallels the transition from segregation to mainstreaming.Which term describes the full participation of people with disabilities in school,work,social,and other activities,and their enjoyment of the same rights and privileges as Canadians without disabilities?

Accepted Answer

A) open house concept 
B) assimilation 
C) inclusion 
D) anti-oppressive

Question 14

When the term accommodation is used in a disability context,what does it usually refer to?

Accepted Answer

A) group homes for people with disabilities 
B) the practice of modifying the environment to the needs of a person with a disability 
C) a method of treatment used by rehabilitation teams in the early twentieth century 
D) the practice of warehousing people with disabilities

Question 15

When compared to parents of children with mild-to-moderate disabilities,what are parents of severely disabled children less likely to be satisfied with?

Accepted Answer

A) their spouse or partner 
B) their job 
C) their own health 
D) their family

Exam 14: Social Welfare and People With Disabilities