10/23 Advocacy and Disability Rights Flashcards
Why Disability Rights?
1) mistreatment in Institutions.
Dorthea Dix asylum movement and Ohio 1851 Constitution. Breakdown due to lack of funds/pop growth
2) Eugenics. Misused Mendal works. Goddard and Kallikaks. Earnest Kreaepelin/Earnest Rudin.
Buck v. Bell 274 US 200 (1927)
Oliver Wendell Holmes stated Carrie Bell should be sterilized. Debunked by Steven Gould, Carrie was fine, just poor and pregnant, no evidence of ID
Wade vs. Bethesda Hospital
Holland M. Gary cited Buck and said if he could intuitionalize people he could sterilize them. Federal judge ruled Gary was not immune from suit. Lacks jurisdiction.
What case demonstrated convergence of poverty, gender, and disability as hallmarks of nation’s institutional population in early 20th century?
Buck
Sam Bagenstos: “The 1970s social movement for disability equality was very…”
Pluralistic
Early disability movements activities
ADAPT, IL (independent living), people first, self advocates, not dead yet.
Contrast, sometimes conflict with family groups like NAMI, Arc, Autism Speaks and VOR
What big piece of legislature made it illegal to discriminate based on handy capped status? Advocates climbed up steps, sat in on offices, regulations finalized?
Section 504 of rehab act 1973
HEW 504 regulation protests. DOJ regulations template for later legislation
What limited the section 504 of rehab act in 1973?
Federal funding and supreme court decisions that narrowed scope of protections
What new proposed regulations are coming in 2023, comments were due by Nov. 13?
Ensures that medical treatment decisions are not based on biases or stereotypes about individuals with disabilities, judgments that an individual will be a burden on others, or beliefs that the life of an individual with a disability has less value
than the life of a person without a disability;
Clarifies obligations for web, mobile, and kiosk accessibility;
Establishes enforceable standards for accessible medical equipment;
Clarifies requirements in HHS-funded child welfare programs and activities;
Prohibits the use of value assessment methods that place a lower value on lifeextension for individuals with disabilities when that method is used to limit access or to deny aids, benefits, and services.
Clarifies obligations to provide services in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs of individuals with disabilities.
What act created IEP plans/written plans and appeals (due process), equal access to education UNLESS school can show its undue, and up to age 21, parent has procedural rights.
The education for all handicapped children act 1975, now Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Based on PARC and Mills, parent has right enforced independently of child, Winkleman vs. Parma 2007
Most important act talked about? When did it come out and when did it really come out?
Americans with disabilities act 2002 (1989), amendments
Americans with disabilities act 2002, what did it do:
Even without federal money, comprehensive civil rights for those with disabilities might still apply to you.
Title 1: employment
Title 2: state and local gov
Title 3: public accommodation
DOJ (dep. of justice) regulations in the Americans with disabilities act:
Mandated by congress, required DOJ to rely on section 504 regulations
Integration mandate: section 28 CFR 35.130(d): “A public entity shall administer services, programs, and activities in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs of qualified individuals with disabilities.”
Sutton Trilogy: Supreme Court did want to limit types of impairments that would be protect under ADA. Their view of “disabilities” to narrow scope.
How did Congress hit back against the supreme court’s Sutton trilogy response to the 2002 act?
Congress pass the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Acts of 2008, expressly stating that it intended the definitions in the ADA to be interpreted broadly
Katie Beckett and HCBS waviers
Katie had medical condition, could not be served at home. Regan ordered category of funding call waivers so she could have home supports.
Still use model today.
CMS (case management services) community regulation (Obama admin)
What was the controversy? What was the solution?
DD boards case management.
Limits on medicaid funds, can’t take more than 4 people.
Conflict: Differences between elderly and disabled: ID thought it was great, wanted waivers in home life/community settings, but the elderly loved assisted living communities.
Solution: no number limit, but discusses institution vs. community and gives guidelines
42 CFR 400.150? Allow anyone with ICF (immediate care facilities) to be put on a wavier. What is the concern?
worried ICF would lose money for home and care when they wanted child in ICF. Judge made sure to clarify state wasn’t going out of ICF business. They probably won’t.
Affordable Care Act
direct action by ADAPT and disability groups in Senate. Widely thought to have defeated the attempt to repeal the act in 2017. Helped to make sure affordable care act passed, but specifically Medicare expansion.
Developmental Disabilities Act (1975) and state networks 42 USC 15001 et seq.
Protection and advocacy system in every state, DD councils, and UCEDDs
Protection and Advocacy Systems (P&A) and expansion
Required in every state and territory Native American included serves four corners region.
Expansion: All disabilities, assistive tech, return to work for social security disability, VOTING
How did the client assistance programunder the rehabilitation act of 1973 compliment the protection and advocacy system from the DD Act of 1975?
Authority under federal law to access people with disability. Ex: medicaid children’s unit with issues, kids placed by courts, lawyers block client access, federal law gets involved.
Unsupervised access to people in facilities, records without person’s consent
DD councils, disability rights Ohio services
Legal representation, VOTING, Job training, house, accessing services, navigating special ed systems, addressing discrimination, abuse, and neglect.
5 parts of disability rights paradigm?
- Agitation: adovcates
- Legislation
- cogitation- important people saying stuff
- litigation - exposing people and holding them accountable
- Disability Hijack: Access to courts and stuff
First to write about disability, Right to Live in the World: Disabled in law of torts 1966?
TenBroek. Founded national federation for blind.
Wolfensberger: The principle of normalization in human services
worked at USEDD in Nebraska. 1980s. Created discussion of “normalization” treating people like people. “Deviancy”/”Diagnosis” vs. Nothing wrong, just who they are. First to talk about that. Principle of Normalization. Dignity of Risk- even if not the right decision, they should be able to make the decision. Context matters.
Jean Vanier Becoming Human
Dorthea Dix, but later. Had men with disabilities live in his home. However, later in life was revealed to have engaged in sexual abuse.
Thomas Nerney’s 5 simple truths about ID
- Freedom- to choose where to live, etc.
- Authority- to control (w/assistance) publicly funded long-term care dollars
- Support- Arrangement of resources in unique ways, meaningful to person built to his preferences.
- Responsibility: use of *public resources *in ways that was wise/cost effective and contribute to community
- Confirmation: include those with disabilities in *public policy *changes and families
Willowbrook 1972 Geraldo Rivera
Robert Kennedy went there first. Geraldo Rivera (1972) took camera crew there to film conditions there. Things were really horrible there. People dumped into streets because they wouldn’t consent to care. Moving people in, you need to move services in too.
Silent Voices is Ohio version
Were constitutional cases designed to move people out of institutions?
No. Designed to correct conditions but not necessarily move people out of institutions
unless the facility closed
Youngberg v. Romeo 457 U.S. 307 (1982) from Pennhurst in Pennsylvania
narrowed the right to treatment under 14th amendment 1982.
No restraints, put in nonrestrictive confinement.
Before States said however we want, federal said no, not like jail, treatment > punishment. Blackman- had to give training so they could improve and maybe get out of the institution.