Treatment of the Disabled

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Treatment of the Disabled
S. Biller
A.Warner M. Warner
M. White March 15, 2007 8th
Grade World Studies 9th Period
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WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM(S) BEING ADDRESSED?

• maltreatment of the mentally disabled
• horrible care of the mentally disabled
• negligence of the mentally disabled
• mentally ill treated as criminals rather than
  patients
• deaf and blind were not being educated

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WHO WAS IMPACTED BY THESE PROBLEMS?

• helpless people
• forgotten people
• insane people
• prisoners
• homeless people
• mentally retarded women and men
• blind and deaf people

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WHAT METHODS WERE USED BY REFORMERS?

• visiting places where the mentally ill were kept
• writing numerous reports describing what was
  observed at the different locations
• sharing what was observed with the state
  government and demanding a change
• advocating for the mentally disabled all over
  this country and in Europe

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WHAT CHANGES WERE ACHIEVED BY THE REFORMERS?

• Dixs efforts resulted in more than 120 hospitals
  being built with safer conditions and personnel
  to help the mentally disabled
• conditions at mental hospitals in Rome were
  improved
• Gallaudet started the first American school for
  the deaf in Hartford, CT
• Howe founded the first school for the blind in
  Boston, MA

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