Test 1 Flashcards
Samuel Gridley Howe
Blindness and Vision
Gallaudet
Deafness and hearing
First American school for the deaf
Harvey Wilbur
Cognitive Disability/Mental Retardation
School for “defective children”
Dorthea Dix
Mental Illness
Humane treatment of people with MI
Alexander Manochonie
Offender
- time of release -> behavior
- amount of labor produced
Walter Crofton
Offender
- prepare inmates to return to world
- make sure they are ready to release
Soldiers Rehab Act
First rehab act, 1918
Disabled/injured vets with handicap to employment
Randolph Shepard Act
Blind operate vending machines/stands on federal property
Wagner O’Day Act
Federal gov. purchase products from workshops for the blind
National industries for the blind
Braden-Lafollete Act
State-federal rehab program extended to people with MR/MI, expanded physical restoration services
Financial need should be demonstrated for some services
504
Define disability
NIDRR
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
ADA Definition
- physical or mental impairment/substantially limits major life activities
- record of impairment
- regarded as having an impairment
502
Accessibility
503
50 or more