History of Disability Rights

HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

Dorthea Dix improved treatements for intellectual disabled people housed in asilus, country homes, and almshouses. Samuel Howie directed the Perkins Institute, and later established the first public training for people with intellectual disabilities.

Greeks and Romans thought children with disabilities were born like that because the gods were angry with them. Some children with severe intellectual disabilitywould be killed rather than permited to grow up.

Seguil published a book "Idiocy and its treatments in psycological methods".

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Jean - Marc Itard, a medical doctor, developed the first systematic and documented program to educate the intellectually disababled people in France. Later, Victor Seguil, adapted his methods a program that was focused on psycological and moral education.

Johann Duggenbühl established the first facility for people with intellectual disabilities in Switzerland. The facility was called Adendberg, and it recieved international attention creating a prototype for institutional care.

HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

President Kennedy established The President's Panel on Mental Retardation for research prevention, education, and services.

The Nazi governemnt forcibly sterilized people with "congenital feeblemindness", a very subjective diagnosis.

Sir Francis Galton published Hereditary Genius that established the theorical basis of the heritability of intellectual disabled.

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Henry Goddard published a book that proved the heritability of "feeblemindness" and later published a study of immigrants to the US that concluded many were "feebleminded".

Thirty states of the US had sterilization loss. Later, research fund that many sterialized had not been intellectually disabled.

HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

Nathalie LevinJose Manuel Tapia Paulina Terrazas

IDEA was reauthorized and students recieving special education must now be involved in general classrooms.

The education for All Handicapp Children Act secured a free public education for children with intellectual disabilities.

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The United Nations passed the standard rules on equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities, giving international standards.

Today, intellectually disabled have many more oportunities than the ones they had before. Also, many governments around the world are excepting taxes from companies who are hiring disabled people, generating more opportunities for them.