PSY345H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: United Cerebral Palsy, Vocational Rehabilitation Act Of 1973, Intellectual Disability
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People in the 20th century were apathetic (not emotionally supportive) and discriminatory to disabled people, their parents and families. Therefore new parent groups advocating for rights of their children began to organize at national level in 1950"s ucp- united. Cerebral palsy organization, national association for retarded children (narc) Goals of the organizations: to bring accurate info to public regarding disabled people- ensure full citizenship rights through access to medical treatment, social services, education. Other parents followed the lead- national society for autistic children (nsac- 1961), national association for children with. This coincided with civil rights movement in 1950- parents seized opportunity to lay foundations of stronger federal & state roles in meeting needs. 1956, u. s. supreme court separate education for coloured people unequal, & narc called for federal gov"t to expand teaching and researching in education of children with mental retardation.
