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Disability Rights Movement

Accommodation not pity. Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. Disability Rights Movement. Independent-living. How do we define disability?. Includes: 1. Physical Impairment 2. Cognitive Impairment 3. Mental/Psychological Illnesses 4. Chronic Illnesses. Eugenics.

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Disability Rights Movement

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  1. Accommodation not pity Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement Disability Rights Movement Independent-living

  2. How do we define disability? • Includes: • 1. Physical Impairment • 2. Cognitive Impairment • 3. Mental/Psychological Illnesses • 4. Chronic Illnesses

  3. Eugenics • Process of improving the human population by controlled breeding. • Often associated with Hitler and the Master Race • However, did you know?.............

  4. The United States had its own eugenics program?? • Late 19th early 20th century – we had laws prohibiting certain groups from marrying. • We also conducted forced sterilizations. • People who were considered defective • Some single mothers • Young “sex delinquents”

  5. From 1907-1963, over 64,000 people were sterilized. • California had the most • 1981 Oregon performed the last legal sterilization • MN conducted 2350 (4% of the total)

  6. Go back to the earlier definition of disability….. • 1. Physical Impairment • 2. Cognitive Impairment • 3. Mental/Psychological Illnesses • 4. Chronic Illnesses • What are some of the characteristics or experiences this group shared/shares with other minority groups?

  7. Individual with Disability Education Act (IDEA) 1975 • 1. Schools have to provide students with disabilities with a free and appropriate education • 2. Schools have to include students with disabilities with students without disabilities to the greatest extent possible.

  8. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1990 • “civil rights act for people with disabilities” • 1. No discrimination in employment • 2. Public accommodations (Physical access) • 3. Telephone and Television – hearing and speech disabilities

  9. Person-first Language

  10. Famous People with Disabilities

  11. Christopher Reeves - Quadriplegic

  12. Catherine Zeta Jones – Bipolar Disorder

  13. Tom Cruise - Dyslexia

  14. MarleeMatlin - Deaf

  15. Harriet Tubman - Epilepsy

  16. DemiLovato - Bipolar

  17. Abe Lincoln - Depression

  18. Michael J. Fox - Parkinson's

  19. David Beckham OCD

  20. Tom Brokaw – Cleft Palate

  21. A disability is just ONE characteristic of a person!!!

  22. YouTube - Conjoined Twins, Abby & Brittany Hensel turn 16

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