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Accepted into UC Berkeley then denied because of his disability
Physically Disabled Students Program
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Roberts
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Prohibits discrimination of the disabled and requires access to programs and activities funded be the Federal Government.
Section 504 extended and created equal rights for the disabled.
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Dart was a member, and then chair, of the Texas Governor's Committee for Persons with Disabilities, National Council on Disability, helped establish Americans with Disabilities Act
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Created to improve education for mental and physically disabled kids
Created IEP plans
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The ACCD fought for equal rights for the disabled
They organized a 10-city sit in to get section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act passed which would protect the rights of the disabled
http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/sitting-disability-rights-section-504-protests-1970s -
Many meetings with the ADA included finding research and input on what regulations and against discrimination should be enabled through many different topics such as law, education, and enforcement.
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U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 including Section 504
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD)
Passage of Public Law 94.142 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
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Attitudinally they face problems with being stereotyped
Communication can be hard without access to things in braille, no closed captioned videos, no interpreters for those who use ASL, etc.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/disability-barriers.html
