Supplemental Resources: History
Additional insights into the origins and evolution of institutions, the rise of the institutional model, and the realities of congregated, segregated, and isolated living conditions; and the movements that challenged perceptions and changed the thinking about individuals with disabilities.
ONLINE TRAINING AND OTHER RESOURCES:
- Partners in Time Online Course – English
- Parallels in Time
- Partners in Policymaking®: Changing Lives. Changing Policies
- "Planning Accessible Meetings and Events, A Toolkit," American Bar Association Commission on Disability Rights
INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY ARTICLES:
- The Origin and Nature of Our Institutional Models by Wolf Wolfensberger, Syracuse University
- From Feeblemindedness to Self-Advocacy, a Half Century of Growth and Self-Fulfillment by Gunnar Dybwad, Heller School, Brandeis University
- The Radiator, Chapter Fourteen of Public Hostage: Public Ransom – Inside Institutional America, by William Bronston, MD
PARENT HISTORY AND PEOPLE FIRST LANGUAGE:
- Disability is Natural by Kathie Snow
- People First Language
INDEPENDENT LIVING:
- Ed Roberts section on the Council website
- A Conversation with Ed Roberts, California, "We Won't Go Away" video:
Part 1
Part 2: - National Disability Policy:
1) National Disability Policy: Progress Report 2014
2) Update - ADA "Moments in Disability History"
SELF ADVOCACY
- The Arc Position Statement on Self-Determination
- Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE)
- Self Advocacy Movement (Parallels in Time)
- Advocating Change Together &