A BRIEF HISTORY OF DISABILITIES

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF DISABILITIES
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What do we say about history?

• Least favorite subject in school
• Oh the good old days!
• If you dont know history you are doomed to
  repeat it.
• History is written by the winners
• The past is prologue

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Three Waves

• Professionals
• Parents
• Self-Advocates

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1940s

• Medical model
• Institutions
• Eugenics

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1950s

• Hide at home
• Growing parent movement
• Early schools by parents

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1960s

• Growing parent movement
• Institutions expand and improve
• Kennedy is President
• Civil Rights Movement

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Edifice Complex

• Buildings to teach them
• To make them like us
• Buildings to protect them from us
• asylums
• Buildings to protect us from them
• Containment centers

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1970s

• Institutional Peak (230,000)
• Investigations
• Right to education
• Litigation
• Legislation

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1980s

• Deinstitutionalization
• Fewer institutions
• Smaller institutions
• Better schools

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1990s

• Support Model
• Quality
• Self-Determination