Institutions
The World's first institution
What is Bedlam
Work directly with people with physical disabilities and/or intellectual disabilities.
What are Direct Support Professionals
Performed in 27 states to prevent IDD and other conditions thought to be heritable & 270 in PA.
What is Sterilization
The "R" Word
What is Retarded
NIMBY
What is Not In My Back Yard
This institution was described as a human warehouse.
What is Willowbrook
Paid an unannounced visit to Willowbrook describing the institution as a "snake pit".
Who is Senator Robert Kennedy
Willowbrook residents denial of public education violated The Equal Protection Clause of this amendment.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment
The scale of retardation: Morons, Imbeciles, and Idiots is now replaced with this classification for IDD and behavior type.
What is Mild, Moderate & Severe
ID
What is Intellectual Disability
With 1,400 Acres, 300 Hospital Beds, self sufficient community closed in 1987.
What is Pennhurst
Founded 32 mental hospitals, 15 schools for people with intellectual disabilities.
Who is Dorthea Dix
Pennhurst's 460 patients were discharged or transferred to other facilities in a process that lasted several years.
What is Deinstitutionalization
Used to value & respect people.
What is First Person Language
Competing in FF or BB at fairs and exhibitions
What is Fitter Family or Better Baby
In it’s darkest hours it served as a source of entertainment to the public.
What is Bedlam
Designed schools to prepare students for participating in the community and provided definitions of 4 types of idiocy.
Who is Hervey Wilbur
Violations such as restraints, inadequate medical care, highly medicated, abuse and displays of dehumanization.
What are Individual Rights
Known as personal outcomes
What are Goals
Hep is caused by viral infections
What is Hepatitis
Described as residents “living in filth and dirt, their clothing in rags, in rooms less comfortable and cheerful than the cages in which we put animals in a zoo.”
What is Willowbrook
Advocated for the right of all people to be treated equally as their abilities allowed, and not their disabilities. Quoted: "Obstacles are things to be overcome."
Who is Samuel Howe
Conditions at Pennhurst were unsanitary, inhumane and dangerous, violating the Fourteenth Amendment. Pennhurst used cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the __________and Fourteenth Amendments.
What is 8th Amendment
This planning process views the entire person; not just the portion of the person that has identified needs.
What is Person Centered Planning
ADA of 1990
What is Americans with Disabilities Act