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Ableism can be defined as:

the intentional or unintentional discrimination of people with disabilities based on the belief that able-bodied individuals are superior.

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Disabilities are physical or mental impairments that limit one or more major life activities.

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Public perception of people with disabilities

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Public perception of people with disabilities

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Eugencies- “the study of hereditary improvements of the human race by controlled selective breeding”

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Disabilities in the workplace (on the farm?)

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Disabilities in the workplace (on the farm?)

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Were either financially compensated or were taken advantage of.

Were common due to lack of proper training.

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Segregation of people with disabilities 

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Segregation of people with disabilities 

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People with disabilities were segregated into residential facilities, institutions, “special schools”

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Medical treatment for mental illness in the 1930s

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Medical treatment for mental illness in the 1930s

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Hydrotherapy- used to help patients remain calm by placing them in water baths

Electroshock therapy- electric shocks were administered to patients brains

Sterilization- people with disabilities were seen as incapable of having children and so they would remove their ability to have children through sterilization.

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How were people with mental/physical disabilities treated in America in the 1930s?

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How were people with mental/physical disabilities treated in America in the 1930s?

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People with disabilities were seen as unproductive and therefore a burden to society.

Viewed as unhealthy and defective.

Majority of people felt that those with disabilities should be killed off.

People with disablilites were often used for entertainment (freakshows/circuses) or they were hidden from the public

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