How it started
This influential women's rights activist, who lived during the early years of America, advocated for both women's suffrage and the rights of individuals with disabilities
Who is Helen Keller?
This established a federal-state program to aid permanent and total disability.
What are the Social Security Amendments?
Overall, have Americans with disabilities been treated better, or worse over time?
Better, today is the best time historically for people with physical and intellectual disabilities.
This early American state, in 1783, became the first to pass a law granting voting rights to men with disabilities, regardless of their property ownership.
What is new Hampshire?
Disabled veterans and people with disabilities begin this movement with the combined efforts of the Veterans administration, the presidents committee on employment of the handicapped and the National Easter Seals Society.
What is the Barrier-Free Movement?
The U.S. government began giving compensation to those with disabilities who were unable to work. In what decade did the U.S. government begin giving disability checks?
1950's, this would continue to the 2020's
This colonial-era institution, founded in 1636, was one of the first educational institutions in America to provide education for individuals in America to provide education for individuals who were blind or visually impaired.
What is the Perkins school for the Blind?
What Civil rights law made school segregation unconstitutional and laid the groundwork for recognizing the rights of people with disabilities
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Currently there are many growing opportunities for disabled people to compete in sports on a level playing field. In what decade did the Paralympics begin?
1960's, the paralympics remain the highest level of competition for those with physical disability. The special olympics would follow as the mentally disabled equivalent.
This Massachusetts Act for the support and care of the Sick, and persons with Physical and Mental Disabilities. This act aimed to provide support and care for individuals with disabilities who were unable to work or support themselves. It established the framework for public support systems to assist those with disabilities in Massachusetts.
The 1836 Massachusetts Act for the Support and Maintenance of the Poor, Sick, and Necessitous Persons with Physical and Mental Disabilities.
An organization which was founded in the 1930s which fought for disabled employment during the Great Depression.
Approximately what percent of Americans have some type of physical disability?
13%.
In recent years the government has been able to better support people with disabilities, as well as gather statistics about disabled americans.
The act that established the first permanent public school for individuals who were deaf in the United States. This act was a pivotal moment in disability history and laid the foundation for future advancements in special education and the rights of individuals with disabilities.
The 1817 American School for the Deaf Act.
Known now as the Arc of Pennsylvania, which sued the state of Pennsylvania over a law which allowed schools to refuse free education to mentally challenged students.
Has the amount of students in special education increased, or decreased in the last 50 years?
Increased, doubled.
One of the most integral improvements in helping those with intellectual disabilities and differences has been improvements in American public schools special education programs. With these improvements, it was made easier for schools to identify intellectual challenges early on, and better cater to students.