Disability Awareness Week

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Disability Awareness Week

• Living with diversity and overcoming adversity.
• Produced by Kathryn Ryan

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• Knowledge is the antidote to fear. - Ralph
  Waldo Emerson

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Definitions

• Handicap A situation or barrier imposed by
  society, the environment, or oneself.
• Disability A functional limitation that
  interferes with a persons ability to walk, talk,
  hear, learn, etc.

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• Disabilities
• Mobility Impairments
• Epilepsy
• Learning disabilities
• Hearing Impairments
• Visual Impairments

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Statistics

• 19.4 (1 in 5) or 48.9 million people have a
  disability
• 9.9 (1 in 10) have a disability that is not
  considered to be severe
• 9.6 (1 in 10) have a severe disability
• 80.6 (4 in 5) are not considered to have a
  disability

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Timeline of Disability Awareness

• 400 BC
• Hippocrates, the Greek physician, wrote the first
  work on epilepsy disputing that the disorder was
  a curse or caused by the gods. He believed that
  epilepsy was a brain disorder.

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• 15th Century
• The court fool was a part of the medieval and
  renaissance court society. Some jesters were
  disabled either physically or mentally.

• 1601
• Elizabethan Poor Laws were passed from 1583 to
  1601 in order to aid the deserving poor, orphaned
  and crippled.

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• 1751
• The Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, with
  the help of Benjamin Franklin, is the first
  hospital to create a special section for the
  treatment of mental illness and mental
  retardation.

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• 1817
• Thomas H. Gallaudet established the first free
  American school for the deaf and hearing impaired
  in 1817.

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• 1855
• The Syracuse State School opened with the help of
  Dr. Hervey Wilbur. Children that struggled with
  learning were trained in either domestic arts or
  farm work.

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• 1860
• Cerebral Palsy was first classified by the
  British surgeon William Little.

• 1866
• John Langdon Down publishes the first clinical
  description of what is later known as Down
  syndrome.

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• 1869
• The first wheelchair patent was registered with
  the United States patent office.

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• 1907
• Maria Montessori opens her first Casa dei Bambini
  or "House of Children." Montessori developed a
  successful program of education for learning
  disabled children that became widely popular.
• 1943
• The classification of autism was introduced by
  Dr. Leo Kanner of John Hopkins University.

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• 1945
• Truman passes Public Law 176 National Employ the
  Handicapped Week. National "Employ the
  Handicapped Week" was created and signed by
  President Harry Truman as Public Law 176. The
  week was established to create more awareness of
  the possibilities available to employ the
  physically handicapped.

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• 1960
• First Paralympics Games held in Rome, Italy. They
  were officially recognized by the International
  Olympic Committee.

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• 1975
• "The Education for All Handicapped Children Act,"
  public law 94-142, was passed in 1975. This act
  allocated federal dollars to states and
  localities in order to provide education for
  children with disabilities. Included in the act
  were provisions for a free and appropriate
  education, individualized education programs with
  parental involvement, establishment of due
  process proceedings, and to provide an education
  in the least restrictive environment.

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1990

• President George Bush signs the ADA on July 26.
  The American with Disabilities Act was a
  wide-sweeping civil rights legislation giving
  protections to individuals with disabilities.
  Equal opportunity was established for employment,
  transportation, telecommunications, public
  accommodations and the state and federal
  government's services.

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1999

• Supreme Court rules on Olmstead v. L.C. and E.W.
  stating that the ADA requires public agencies to
  provide services in the most integrated setting.

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What can you do???
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Its OK to offer assistance

• Just dont assume...
• a person needs any
• a person wants any
• that you know what they might want

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Be inclusive in conversations
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Theres no need to YELL!
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Try to be flexible and open
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Visual Tests

• Some people with dyslexia or learning
  disabilities also experience visual disturbances
  when reading text. How does it make you feel to
  look at them?

• On the next slide read the colors of the words,
  not the actual words.

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• We all have abilities
• Many of us have disabilities
• The focus is on the PERSON and their ABILITIES