Historical Images
Assignment
Abandoned to the
Fate video
This video give a historical
account of how person with disabilities have been treated in our society. This video focuses on moral, economic and
aesthetic issues.
A)
What
did you learn in each of these areas regarding the treatment of persons with
disabilities?
Failure asthetic:
entertainment, inhuman, menacing
Failure morale- social
dynamite, social junk
Failure economic
B)
What
was shocking to you?
In the middle ages when
they would take the people with disabilities and load them onto a boat in the
middle of the night and take them down 2 or 3 ports and unload them in that
port to get rid of their town’s “problem”
The “idiot cages” that
was placed in the middle of the town center
The Hunchback of Notre
Dame was based on a real person
The amount of circularity
that was used to “diagnose” a person
The rock pile activity
for people to experience the “luxury” of fatigue
C)
What
statements can you make about the evolution of how we treat persons with
disabilities in our society
It wasn’t until the late
20th century that people with disabilities were seen as a real
human.
D)
What
progress was made?
People who have a
disability are now able to hold a job and be considered successful
Inclusion
E)
What
challenges remain for persons with disabilities in living independently in the
community?
They are still labeled
and segregated from certain aspects of society because they have a disability
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