Max Starkloff - started organizations for paraplegic people by 2026 Keira Chaga https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p Made By: Keira Chaga en-us 2022-06-08 23:50:42 UTC 2022-06-09 22:36:48 UTC hello@padlet.com When was Max born? chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2215559016  Max was born on September 18th, 1937 he was born in St. Louis, MO]]> 2022-06-09 00:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2215559016 When did Max pass? chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2215560309 Max passed on December 27 2010 due to influenza complications and old age.]]> 2022-06-09 00:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2215560309 What did Max Starkloff Stand for and what was his fight? chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216695728 Max Starkloff had stood for the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act which had passed in 1990, He had to find a way to make everything more accessible for people like him by including ramps on new vehicles and making sidewalks more accessible and he also helped make the  St. Louis Zoo accessible ]]> 2022-06-09 20:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216695728 When was he injured and how? chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216703061 up until max was 21 he could walk and move around on his own but due to a disabling automobile accident, he could no longer.]]> 2022-06-09 20:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216703061 Max Launched... chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216762784  necessary changes so that he, and others with disabilities, could live independently From the nursing home in which he lived, Max founded a privately funded independent living center he called Paraquad.]]> 2022-06-09 22:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216762784 Where did max attend school? chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216763841 Max Starkloff was a disability rights activist. Starkloff attended public schools and then attended the Pennsylvania Military Academy (now Widener University) in Chester, Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from St. Louis Medical College (now the Washington University School of Medicine).]]> 2022-06-09 22:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216763841 An award he was given? chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216765070 Max was given the following awards 
  • Community Leadership Award – Leadership St. Louis
  • Commissioner’s Distinguished Service Award – Rehabilitation Services Administration, Washington, DC
  • Mayor’s Arch Award for leadership in disability rights – St. Louis, Mo.
  • Annual Civic Service Award – Maryville University
  • St. Louis Award
  • Sold on St. Louis Award
  • Sword of Ignatius Loyola Award, St. Louis University’s highest honor, St. Louis, MO.
  • Missourian Award – Missouri Hall of Fame
  • Doctor of Humane Letters – Webster University, St. Louis, MO
  • Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO.
  • Recognized by the National Council on the Handicapped and St. Louis Unit of NASW.
  • “Max Starkloff Lifetime Achievement Award” – National Council on Independent Living, Washington, D.C.
  • St. Louis Walk of Fame, Induction, June 20, 2008
]]> 2022-06-09 22:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216765070 What was Max's goal concerning civil rights? chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216771255 His goal was for them to pass the independent rights movement and it did get passed in 1990.]]> 2022-06-09 22:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216771255 more about max.. chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216773760 Max always had the will to keep going and he never really gave up mentally. Max had to relearn how to live but he never just thought about himself and how he had to go through that he also thought about the people who had to struggle just like him so he took the chance and made a huge deal about the Independent rights movement which soon got passed in 1990 and he continued to go on and have them fix side walks and even a zoo so it was accessible ]]> 2022-06-09 22:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216773760 What was his motvations chagak https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216775734 his main focus on life was having the will to live and he really had wanted a family so that kept him going and same with his imagination and the will to work and to live a great life.]]> 2022-06-09 22:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/chagak/m0lw38kwaa4g800p/wish/2216775734