Disability Issues Midterm.txt

always put the person first, not the disability.

EX. A boy with autism

The inability or significantly reduced ability to perform one or more major life activities

describes the encounter between the person and the environment

obstacles to a person's success

• EX
• social-attitudes
• personal- lack of info
• physical- lack of access
• resources- money supports, insurance

a missing, damaged, deficient, or weakened body part or function

• ex.
• visual
• cognitive

pre-institutionalisation

institutioniliation

dehumanization of institutions

humanization of institutuin

deinstitutionilization

often viewed disability as a result of divine intervention (punishment for parents' sins or as evidence of being closer to the gods)

Greeks and Romans kept people with mental and/or physical disabilities as slaves or amusement (warm up for gladiators)

if they survived, people with disabilities were often cared for by the clergy

• improvements came from:
• rise of humanitarian
• charity model
• medical advances (illnesses from natural, not supernatural causes)
• few if any rights as citizens
• "simple idiots" became property of the crown in England and lost all rights

• over crowded and understaffed
• poor/unsanitary conditions
• same clothing or no clothing
• hose down for showers
• electric shock therapy and lobotomies used to "control" people

scientists blames people with disabilities for society's ills

• eugenics(social Darwinism) became popular
• designation of "moral defectives" and waste humanity
• passage of "ugly laws" meant government sanctioned segregation
• forced sterilization- 60,000 reported cases
• 1926- 23 states had mandatory sterilization laws
• mostly women, they became sick or died

Euthanasia Program