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Edward Robert Verne
-Contracted polio and was paralyzed
-Respirator
-High school education by telephone
-Difficulties getting his diploma
-Bachelor's and master's degree
-Center for Independent Living (1972)
-Director of California Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (1976)
-Promoted rights for the disabled around the world -
Edward Roberts fights to get support from UC Berkeley 1962
-Accepted to University of California, Berkeley
-Difficulties enrolling because of his "iron lung"
-He challenged the university
-Created the Physically Disabled Students Program while studying at Berkeley -
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD) and "sit-in"
-Founding of Paraquad by Ma Starkloff
-Founding of ACCD
-ACCD took over 4th floor of a federal building in San Francisco for 25 days (April 1977)
-Negotiation to leave the building if they were guaranteed a protection of rights for individuals with disabilities
-Supporters wore symbols to show their support -
US Rehabilitation Act including section 504
-Replaced the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 put in place by Edward Roberts
-Calls for no discrimination based on disability to occur in any program that receives federal funding
-Section 504 was first civil rights law passed in the US -
Passage of Public Law 94.142 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
-Guarantees a free public education to any child who has a disability
-Improve access to education
-Protect rights
-Help States and localities to provide the education
-Evaluate and guarantee effectiveness
-Supported more than 1 million children with disabilities -
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
-Signed by President George W Bush
-43 million disabled Americans now had a guarantee of basic rights
-"How a nation, a state, a community, we can embrace our differences" -
Problems Today
-Employment gap
-Special education
-Continued discrimination and judgement -
Accomplishments of the Movement
-Accommodation for the disabled
-More opportunities provided
-Civic Access expanded
-Access to technology
-Working opportunities
-Educational opportunities
-Paraolympics
