https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc en-us 2021-12-10 13:37:53 UTC 2023-02-14 17:00:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 2410837_3 https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940341087 Ableism is described as discrimination against those with disabilities. ]]> 2021-12-10 13:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940341087 2410837_3 https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940349964 People with disabilities were undoubtedly treated very poorly by society. The mentally disabled were forcefully kicked out of their homes and sent to a mental institution as early as infancy. ]]> 2021-12-10 13:45:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940349964 2410837_3 https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940356963 Treatments included inhumane ways of restraint, drowning patients in ice baths, placing them in straight jackets, shock machines and electroconvulsive therapy. ]]> 2021-12-10 13:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940356963 2410837_3 https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940376904 People thought extremely low of people with disabilities. They were described as a burden to society and were forcefully sterilized in an attempt to stop the reproduction of disabled people. People believed that they were possessed by demons. They were seen as lesser than by all. ]]> 2021-12-10 13:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940376904 2410837_3 https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940395142
Throughout history, people with disabilities have been segregated and isolated. People with developmental and other disabilities have been segregated in large residential facilities, or institutions, in “special” schools, and in the workplace in sheltered workshops. These schools and workplaces were much worse than those for able-bodied people.]]> 2021-12-10 14:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1940395142 2410837_3 https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1945913930 Segregation continued in the workplace. Candy is an outcast and earns a low pay because he lost his hand in an accident. Candy, like all people with physical impairments in the 1930s, was treated in this manner.]]> 2021-12-14 01:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1945913930 2410837_3 https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1945922477 Eisenmenger, Ashley. “Ableism 101 - What Is Ableism? What Does It Look like?” Access Living, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.accessliving.org/newsroom/blog/ableism-101/.


Missouri Secretary of State - IT. “1930-1950 New Treatments.” 1930-1950: New Treatments, https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/exhibits/quest/treatment/1930-1950.


“Disabilities in 1930s America: Of Mice and Men Context.” OxNotes GCSE Revision, www.oxnotes.com/of-mice-and-men-context-disabled-in-1930s-america-gcse.html.]]> 2021-12-14 01:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2410837_3/4y80yz24inz0ujzc/wish/1945922477