Schools
Mistreatment Stopped
Laws Passed Dealing with Disability
People in Disability History
Disability Facts
100

The first American School for the Deaf is founded. 

1817 by Thomas H. Gallaudet 

100

Mentally Ill patients at an asylum in Paris, are unchained for the first time in.....

30 years

100

Military disability law for the relief of sick and disabled seamen is signed when........

1798

100

She was Blind and Deaf

Helen Keller

100

Braille Alphabet is invented by who in 1829?

Louis Braille

200

First Institution for the Blind.

1784 by Valentin Huay in France

200

Disability Protests assist in getting thousands of jobs for people with disabilities with the (WPA)Work Progress Administration jobs.

1935

200

Eugenic Sterilization Law was passed in Indiana for all " confirmed idiots, imbeciles and rapists”—in state institutions".

1907

200

She was the companion of someone else on this list and assisted the person in her surroundings.

Anne Sullivan

200

First facility for the criminally insane is started in New York.

1855

300

Speech School for Deaf Teachers in Boston is opened. 

1870

300

Dr. Howard A. Rusk founds the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City, helping form treatment for people with disabilities.

1948

300

Congress passes the first rehabilitation program for soldiers returning from the Great War (WWI). The program is called Vocational Rehabilitation in.....

1918

300

He was considered the father and apostle of the Blind.

Thomas H. Gallaudet

300

Disability issues become more noticeable after what war?

The Civil War with more than 30,000 amputations.

400

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, passes making it illegal for any public institution to discriminate based on disability in what year.....

1973

400

The National Barrier Free Standards movement begins for people with physical disabilities to access spaces. 

1950

400

In what year was Compulsory Sterilization Ruled Constitutional by the Supreme Court in Buck vs. Bell. This has never been overturned. 

1927

400

Louis Braille was born in France in............

1809

400

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

500

Law Guarantees Free, Appropriate, Public Education for All Disabled Children now called Free Appropriate Disability Education Act (IDEA) is signed as law in......

1975

500

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

500

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. This provides permanent assistance to adults with disabilities in what year?

1935

500

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

500

The Iron Lung was invented to provide artificial respiration for those affected by Polio in what year?

1927