history reflection
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This is for a school project! In class we went and visited the Museum Of Dissabilities. I hope you learn a little bit from this powerpoint!! :)TRANSCRIPT
- 1. History Reflection
The Museum of Disabilities
Intro. To Exceptional Student
By: Sarah Fricano
2. MAIN TOPIC: How badly did people with disabilities use to be
treated?
3. Did you know about Newark? I found this to be so shockingWanna
know why?!
4. -Some men were such awful husbands to their wives. If the
husband felt that his wife was not living up to his standards he
would then just send her away and lock her up in Newark. For simple
reasons, maybe he felt she wasnt keeping up with the household
duties as well as she should beConclusion? She would be sent to
Newark for just that reason alone.
Some people were sent there for good reasons but also there are
some women who are sent there just because of what there husband
thinks about them
-Newark first opened as an experimental branch of Syracuse state
school In 1878.
-Newark state school became an independent institution in
1885.
-The main purpose of this institution was to instruct females
only.
-Boys could then finally be admitted in 1932.
All about Newark
5. 6. 7. -The picture you just saw was a picture of a disabled
person working out in a field.
-Way back then, people would have all the individuals with
disabilities work out in the big open fields doing farm work
because no one would be able to see them that way.
8. What else is different about how we treated people with
disabilities years and years ago compared to our society
today?
9. There are several people in our world today who are born with
some kind of disability.However, years ago they tried to stopthe
birth of disabled individuals in a terrible way. In hopes to stop
the birth of more individuals with disabilities
People would become sterilized!
This means that they would make it so that people with disabilities
are no longer able to produce because they did not want to take the
risk that people with disabilities would end up giving birth so a
child with disabilities. This is known as NEGATIVE
EUGENICS.NEGATIVE EUGENICS states that once this sterilization has
taken place the society would then be cleansed.
10. ALSO.
-It was also believed that many immigrants were mentally defective
and would contribute to crime. They would under go tests at Ellis
Island to determine their mental status.
-The Eugenic policy~
If someone was not like ourselves they were less than
perfect.
11. 12. WHAT WAS KNOWN AS FOOLS CAGE ?
13. Fools Cage
During the middle ages it is was believed that many towns had idiot
cages. These were used to keep people with disabilities and mental
illnesses out of trouble while providing a source of entertainment
for the townspeople.
14. 15. Little Moron
-Little Moron was a book of jokes that used humor at the expense of
the Little Moron
-Unfortunately, the word moron is still used today by many people
as a form of criticism.
-The word moron was used to describe people with en I.Q. of
50-69
- Today, people with that I.Q. level are described by the American
Psychiatric Association as having mild mental retardation
16. 17. Please DONT say the R word!
-After going through this slide show, I hope that you can now
confidently say that everyone as readers will stop saying the R
word.
-The R word is highly degrading and very hurtful. Even if you are
not putting it to use and trying to use it in a hurtful way, it
often times is so offensive no matter what. In other words, even
when the R word is not said to harm someone with a disability, it
is so hurtful.
-Please from now on, try your very best to stop the spread of the
use of the R word!
18. 19. -You can now see how much of a difference people with
disabilities were treated years ago compared to how they are
treated now.
-Everything I included in this slideshow were facts that were brand
new to me! I knew people were treated badly, but I really didnt
think things got that terrible.
-It was awful and extremely sad to even think that people were
treated that badly. They treated them as if they were some kind of
animal.
-However on a positive note, today we have changed all of that and
have very good programs that supply help for those who are
disabled