An Introduction to Disability Pride, History and Culture.

Who We Are

Paul MillerInclusion Specialist at Michigan

Disability Rights Coalition

Micah Fialka-FeldmanAppointee for Member, President’s

Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities

What Does Disability Mean to You?

Disability Community

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Adapted from the work of Melinda Haus, MSW

Truth or Myth Game

Truth: Aberham Lincoln,16th 1861-1865, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd, 1933-1945)

We have had a President

with a disability.

Disability PrideAccepting and honoring our

uniqueness and seeing it as a natural and beautiful part of human diversity.

Pride comes from celebrating our own heritage, culture, unique experiences, and contributions.

Disability History

Now We Are Going to Talk About Terms

Ableism Ally Self Advocacy Disability Pride

Know Your Language.

What Is Prejudice?What Is Discrimination?

Ableism First Used in 1981

Operates on an individual, cultural and societal Level.

A system of discrimination and exclusion that keeps people with disabilities down.

Internalized Ableism Person with a disability who

looks at their own disability negatively and creates barriers.

They judge other people with disabilities based on their own negative self image.

Person who internalizes ableism will confirm negative stereotypes when talking with an ableist.

Myth: After 124 years of

existence Dr. I. King Jordan becomes the

first deaf President of Gallaudet in

1988.

Gallaudet University was

founded in 1864 making that year the first year a

university had a Deaf President.

Truth or Myth Game

Oppression

 In 1751 Benjamin Franklin, created the first hospital with a special section for the treatment of people with mental illness and cognitive disabilities.

1751

In 1756, those patients were chained to the walls of the basement and put on display for a fee.

 The eugenics movement in America led to passage of laws to prevent people with disabilities from moving to this country, marrying, or having children.

1883Sir Francis Galton in England started the “eugenics” movement to "improve the stock" of humanity.

 The US Supreme court rules that forced sterilization of people with disabilities is not a violation of constitutional rights. By the 1970s some 60,000 people with disabilities were sterilized without consent.

1927Buck v Bell

 In Nazi Germany, 908 chronically ill and cognitively disabled patients were sent from the Schoenbrunn institution to a euthanasia "installation" to be gassed. A monument to the victims now stands in the courtyard at Schoenbrunn.

1940 - 1944

a) Trueb) False

After 1975 the American Medical Association forbid discrimination against people with disabilities from receiving organ transplants to save their lives.

False

 Stanford University denied a heart & lung transplant to a People First member because she has Downs Syndrome.

1995Sandra Jensen

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Self Advocacy

A self advocate speaks up for a personal or public need with the knowledge of his or her rights.

Resistance

 Ed Roberts, the “Father of the Independent Living Movement” and his peers at Cowell (UC Berkeley Health Center) formed a group called the Rolling Quads which became the Disabled Students’ Program. In 1971 Roberts and his associates would establish the first Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley, CA.

1970

 On April 5th,1977 a group of people with disabilities took over the San Francisco offices of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to protest Secretary Joseph Califano’s refusal to sign regulations for Section 504. The historic, one month long, protest was successful.

1977Department of health take over

 Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation (ADAPT) forms in Denver, CO as a project of the Atlantis Community. It began with a national campaign for lifts on buses and access to public transport for people with disabilities.

1983

a) 1920b) 1950c) 1970d) 1990

When was the American With Disabilities Act(ADA) signed? The ADA is the civil rights act for people with disabilities in the USA.

1990

a) Paul Shafferb) Justin Dartc) Jerry Lewisd) Norm DeLisle

Who does the disability community consider the father of the ADA our civil rights champion?

Justin Dart

 On July 26th President George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Act was heavily promoted by activist Justin Dart Jr., who sat on the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.

1990

 Jean Driscoll wins her first of eight Boston Marathons in the Women’s Wheelchair Division. Driscoll competed in numerous wheelchair racing events and was named #25 in the “Top 100 Female Athletes of the 20th Century” by Sports Illustrated for Women.

1990

a) Justin Dartb) Jim Abbottc) Cecil Fielderd) Ryan Nelson

Who was the baseball player who with one hand pitched a no hitter?

Jim Abbott

 On September 4th, Jim Abbott pitched a no-hitter for the New York Yankees against the Cleveland Indians. He also won a gold medal with the 1988 US Olympic team. Abbott, who is from Flint, MI was born with one hand.

1993Jim Abbott pitched a no-hitter

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1999

The US 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.

The United States Supreme Court Building

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2009US District Judge Patrick Duggan required Oakland University in Michigan to allow Micah Fialka-Feldman to live in a campus dormitory. Micah was participating in a post-secondary education program for persons with intellectual disabilities.

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Ally: Person Without a Disability Who Fights Ableism

Learning about ableism.

Learning from and listening to people with disabilities.

Examining their own ableism.Working

through feelings of guilt, shame and defensiveness to understand what needs to be healed.

Ally Activity

Adaptive Sports

Disability CultureHow do You get Involved?

Involvement in ADAPT actions.Find your local Center for Independent Living (CIL)Adaptive sports

Awareness ofADA ( Knowing and speaking up for your rights).

Questions?

With Liberty and Access

for All

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