Hello
I put this together last week in response to a request from a
Saskatchewan governmental executive. This information might be of
interest to the group.
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-- Duncan
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Duncan H. Blackman, MA, Registered Psychologist
email: [log in to unmask]
(Consultant, Psychological Services, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada)
cell: 306-631-4500
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Most of the histories are in books. The summaries seem totally
inadequate. Also, while the USA experience is somewhat similar to
Canada, there are vast differences. In Canada, the national
organizations have influenced government, but apart from the various
Human Rights legislation and the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms, there has never been an all-inclusive policy that guides
programs for people with disabilities. The various worldwide
movements had variable influence on the provinces. For example,
sterilization was an outcome of the eugenics movement.
In the USA, the federal laws and initiatives (influence of the Kennedy
family, Education for all Handicapped Act (subsequently Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)), Developmental Disabilities
Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Medicaid, litigation like
Olmstead) have enabled different outcomes than what has been largely a
voluntary action in Canada. In the UK, and Europe, the social
construct of disability has had a profound impact on their service
approach.
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Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
http://www.mnddc.org/
Parallels In Time:
A Six-Hour History of Disability
http://www.mnddc.org/parallels/index.html
Parallels in Time II:
A continuation of the history of disabilities that covers the time
period from 1950 to the present.
http://www.mnddc.org/parallels2/index.htm
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Google Book:
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United
States
By James W. Trent, James W. Trent Jr.
Edition: reprint, illustrated
Published by University of California Press, 1995
ISBN 0520203577, 9780520203570
356 pages
http://preview.tinyurl.com/b8hlzy
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Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader (The History of
Disability) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
by Steven Noll (Author), James Trent (Author) (2004)
http://www.amazon.com/Mental-Retardation-America-Historical-Disability/dp/0814782485
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History of Events Dealing With Mental Retardation
(only up to 1818)
Freely adapted from A History of Mental Retardation, R.C.
Scheerenberger, Brookes Publishing Co. (Baltimore, 1983).
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cbbc/courses/bio4/bio4-1996/DealingWithMentalRetard.html
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history of the treatment of people with disabilities (focused on
Education) up to the last decade – the USA experience.
http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/spe300/History.html
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A History of Mental Retardation: A Quarter Century of Promise (Hardcover)
by R. C. Scheerenberger (1987)
http://www.amazon.ca/History-Mental-Retardation-Quarter-Century/dp/093371680X
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Google Book:
The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation: The Kennedy
Family and the History of Mental Retardation
By Edward Shorter
Edition: illustrated
Published by Temple University Press, 2000
http://books.google.ca/books?id=vjf_wK403UUC
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History of The Arc of the United States 1950-Present
formerly "National Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally
Retarded Children"
http://www.arcms.org/about/history.php
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The disability rights and independent living movement – timeline
1800 through 1996
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/resources/timeline.html
[This appears to be an excellent review of developments in the USA,
although it is somewhat lacking for information on mental
retardation.]
This site (University of California at Berkeley) is a source of other
relevant history -
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/index.html
Oral History/Archives -
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/collection/collection.html
Symposium(2000): Intersections of Civil Rights and Social Movements:
Putting Disability in Its Place -
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/resources/symposium.html
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Disability History Museum – Library for collections of historical documents
Materials in the Library date back to the 18th century and represent
all disability categories across the life span.
http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/
full collection at http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/list_titles.php
[Some examples follow.]
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Disability History Museum - Documents - Full Text
The Origin And Nature Of Our Institutional Models
FROM: Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded
CREATOR: Wolf Wolfensberger (author)
DATE: January 10, 1969
PUBLISHER: President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C.
http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1909.htm
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TITLE: A Brief History Of The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The
Education And Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb
CREATOR: n/a
DATE: 1893
http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1371.htm
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Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts
FROM: The History of Mental Retardation, Collected Papers
CREATOR: Dorothea L. Dix (author)
DATE: 1843
http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/737.htm
Some pertinent quotes from page 1 follow:
I found, near Boston, in the jails and asylums for the poor, a
numerous class brought into unsuitable connection with criminals and
the general mass of paupers. I refer to idiots and insane persons,
dwelling in circumstances not only adverse to their own physical and
moral improvement, but productive of extreme disadvantages to all
other persons brought into association with them… I proceed,
gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of
insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets,
cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed
into obedience.
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TITLE: Christmas In Purgatory: A Photographic Essay On Mental Retardation
CREATOR: Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan (authors)
DATE: 1974
http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1782card.htm
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Treatment Of The Mentally Retarded - A Cross-National View
CREATOR: Gunnar Dybwad (author)
DATE: June 1968
http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/2258.htm
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Trends And Issues In Mental Retardation
CREATOR: Gunnar Dybwad (author)
DATE: 1960
http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/2242.htm
[contains some history]
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Pennsylvania Hospital History Historical Timeline - 1951-Today
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/timeline/1951/
(links available to 1751 when founded by Benjamin Franklin)
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Disability Social History Project
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/
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Disability Social History Project – Timeline
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/timeline_new.html
to 1995
Example:
(31-Aug-1995) The First International Symposium on Issues of Women
with Disabilities is held in Beijing, China in conjunction with the
Fourth World Conference on Women.
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Mental Health History Timeline
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mhhtim.htm#1909
[This is from a UK perspective.]
quote from the 1909 entry: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mhhtim.htm#1909
"one person in every 118 of our population is mentally defective,
being either mad, idiotic, or feeble-minded" (Francis Galton The
Problem of the Feeble-Minded
Also:
16.10.1909 Morning Post "there exist to-day, apart from certified
lunatics who are under restraint, 150,000 mentally defective persons,
and of these no less than 66,000 are considered to be " urgently in
need of provision, either in their own interest or for the public
safety." It is difficult to express with sufficient force the gravity
of the danger to national life which the existence of these persons
uncontrolled in any sufficient manner implies. For from these
unfortunate men and women the ranks of paupers, drunkards, and
criminals are continually recruited."
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San Francisco State University - A Chronology of the Disability Rights
Movements
http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Ehrdpu/chron.htm
1817-1996
1869 - The first wheelchair patent is registered with the U.S. Patent
Office.
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History's virtual exhibit on
the disability rights movement
http://americanhistory.si.edu/disabilityrights/
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Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Anthology (History of
Disability)
by Steven (edt) Noll (2004)
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780814782484
This is a highly readable and well-edited historical anthology, a
wide-ranging collection that deals with mental retardation over two
centuries…The editors consider the history of retardation in the
context of general history.
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Resources in the History of Idiocy
A bibliographic and text resource base for people interested in the
history of idiocy.
Dr. Murray K. Simpson
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~mksimpso/welcome.htm
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Classics in the History of Psychology (An internet educational
resource developed by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto,
Ontario) Hosted by Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto
(http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/). Contains a wide range of historical
documents from the history of psychology including many relevant to
the history of intellectual disability. Authors include: Binet,
Catell, Galton, Goddard, Terman, etc.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/
see http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/topic.htm#history
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