Discuss at least FOUR of the following movements: boarding schools, institutionalization, eugenics, rehabilitation, vocational workshops, deinstitutionalization, disability rights.

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Write an essay that will demonstrate your knowledge and analysis of several of the readings that we have covered this term. Your essay should be at least 2500 words long.

Answer the following questions.

Since the early nineteenth century, there have been several reform movements that claimed to help disabled people. Were these movements helpful or harmful to disabled people?Discuss at least FOUR of the following movements: boarding schools, institutionalization, eugenics, rehabilitation, vocational workshops, deinstitutionalization, disability rights.

References:

Allen, T. F., Rannveig, T., & Spina, L. (2005). Tom Allen’s Story. In K. Johnson & T. Rannveig (Eds.), Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities: In and Out of Institutions (pp. 33-49, 111-116, 157-158, 205-206, 274). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Burch, Susan and Ian Sutherland. “Who’s Not Yet Here? American Disability History.” Radical History Review 94 (2006): 127–47.

Patterson, L. (2012). Points of Access: Rehabilitation Centers, Summer Camps, and Student Life in the Making of Disability Activism, 1960-1973. Journal of Social History, 46(2), 473-499.

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