Schools
The first American School for the Deaf is founded.
1817 by Thomas H. Gallaudet
Mentally Ill patients at an asylum in Paris, are unchained for the first time in.....
30 years
Military disability law for the relief of sick and disabled seamen is signed when........
1798
She was Blind and Deaf
Helen Keller
Braille Alphabet is invented by who in 1829?
Louis Braille
First Institution for the Blind.
1784 by Valentin Huay in France
Disability Protests assist in getting thousands of jobs for people with disabilities with the (WPA)Work Progress Administration jobs.
1935
Eugenic Sterilization Law was passed in Indiana for all " confirmed idiots, imbeciles and rapists”—in state institutions".
1907
She was the companion of someone else on this list and assisted the person in her surroundings.
Anne Sullivan
First facility for the criminally insane is started in New York.
1855
Speech School for Deaf Teachers in Boston is opened.
1870
Dr. Howard A. Rusk founds the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City, helping form treatment for people with disabilities.
1948
Congress passes the first rehabilitation program for soldiers returning from the Great War (WWI). The program is called Vocational Rehabilitation in.....
1918
He was considered the father and apostle of the Blind.
Thomas H. Gallaudet
Disability issues become more noticeable after what war?
The Civil War with more than 30,000 amputations.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, passes making it illegal for any public institution to discriminate based on disability in what year.....
1973
The National Barrier Free Standards movement begins for people with physical disabilities to access spaces.
1950
In what year was Compulsory Sterilization Ruled Constitutional by the Supreme Court in Buck vs. Bell. This has never been overturned.
1927
Louis Braille was born in France in............
1809
He was known as Elephant Man. After his death he was diagnosed with having an illness of tumors all over his body, called neurofibromatosis.
Joseph Carey Merrick
Law Guarantees Free, Appropriate, Public Education for All Disabled Children now called Free Appropriate Disability Education Act (IDEA) is signed as law in......
1975
Last of the "Ugly Laws" is repealed, taking away the ability of police to arrest someone for being disfigured or demonstrating a type of disability in public.
1974
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. This provides permanent assistance to adults with disabilities in what year?
1935
She starts her activism off with being denied a teaching license in New York for her wheelchair being a fire hazard. She founded the Independent Living Movement with Ed Roberts and oversees Vocational Rehab in the 90's.
Judy Heumann
The Iron Lung was invented to provide artificial respiration for those affected by Polio in what year?
1927