Disabled Americans Rights Movement

By klhemmelgarn

  • The American School for the Deaf is founded.

    This was founded in Hartford, CT. It was the first school for disabled children in the Western Hemisphere.

  • First residential institution for people with mental retardation is founded.

    Founded by Samuel Gridley Howe in Boston. Over the next century, many disabled children and adults are institutionalizied.

  • The Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind becomes the first college in the world expressly established for ppl. with disabilities.

  • The U.S. Supreme Court, Irving Independent School District v. Tatro ruled that school districts are required under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 to provide intermittent catheterization performed by the school nurse or a nurse’s ai

  • The first issue of the Matilda Zieglar Magazine for the Blind is published.

  • The American Foundation for the Blind is founded.

    Helen Keller becomes its prncipal fund-raiser.

  • The U.S. Supreme Court, in Buck v. Bell, rules that the forced sterilization of people with disabilities is not a violation of the constitution.

  • Seeing Eye establishes the first dog guides school for the blind.

  • Social Security Act was passed.

    Established federally funded old age benefits for states for assistance to blind individuals and disabled children.

  • President Harry Truman created an annual National Employ the Handicapped Week

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    The Reagan Administration terminated the Social Security benefits of hundreds of thousands of disabled recipients.

  • The U.S. Supreme Court, Irving Independent School District v. Tatro ruled that school districts are required under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 to provide intermittent catheterization performed by the school nurse or a nurse’s ai

  • The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed by George W. Bush. The Act provided comprehensive civil rights protection for people with disabilities.