Analyzing Strategies for People with Disabilities & Rights

This essay examines the historical perspectives and strategies related to people with disabilities, beginning with the pre-1960s era when individuals with disabilities were often confined to government institutions under inhumane conditions. It discusses the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s, which aimed to release individuals with disabilities back into their communities, fostering independence and freedom. The essay highlights the role of disability activism in advocating for civil and anti-discrimination rights, as well as the impact of technological and medical advancements. It also addresses the challenges that emerged with the rise of private medical industries and nursing homes, which sometimes perpetuated segregation. The essay references key works that provide an oral history of the disability rights movement and explore the journey from awareness to action, offering a comprehensive overview of the strategies and perspectives surrounding disability rights.

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Historical Perspectives on Disability
Before 1960s, disable people were always enslaved in government institutions. People
who are suffering from mental illness, physical or sensory disabilities, and developmental
disabilities were kept in inhumane and appalling conditions frequently far worse than crime
offenders were treated. Deinstitutionalization is a plan, which started to happen during the 1960s
whereby people with critical disabilities were slowly released from schools to go back to their
people where medication was to be provided (Pelka, 2012). This step created an opportunity for
the first time in history of America a commanding, for individuals with disabilities to live
independently and have more freedom.
From this, a society and a nation with history, objective, and values were initiated. Along
any minority, the actual fight would emerge in captivating the public support. The programme
headed for deinstitutionalization emerged through activism of disability, though another
historically vital aspect was the initiation of latest technologies as well as medication attached
with a hope of even good technology (Wilde, 2004). Though the deinstitutionalization was a
triumph for people with disability, people have not believed that disable people were wholly
entitled to their human and civil rights irrespective of disability.
Freedom from government schools emerged from the community of disability started to
know that our civil and human rights freedoms would emerge only as people fought for them,
also that we would have to fight in the path for the voice of the public to be heard in Washington
so as to ratify civil and anti-discrimination rights (Albrecht, 2006), which applied to individuals
with disabilities directly. Along with most government institutions closed, individuals with

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critical disabilities emerged more visible, and louder as well. Although unwelcome attitude of
the society did not transformed.
This condition formed a chance for the secluded medical market to apt the position that
was once held by government schools. This situation created an opportunity for the private
medical industry to appropriate the position once held by state-run institutions (Albrecht, 2006).
Expansion of nursing homes enabled community to get rid of people with disabilities integration
while keeping a clean conscience because the industry of home nursing started to spin problem
as a cause of social welfare.

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References
Pelka, F. (2012). What we have done: An oral history of the disability rights movement. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press.
Wilde, J. W. (2004). The disability journey: A bridge from awareness to action. New York:
iUniverse, Inc.
Albrecht, G. L. (2006). Encyclopedia of disability: 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publ.