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This week we will be looking at history of the disability rights movement

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This week we will be looking at history of the disability rights movement.  You will analyze how disability rights have evolved and what they look like today.

Skills

The purpose of this discussion is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course / in school / in this field / in professional life beyond school: 

• MLO #2.2. Discuss the key elements of critical American disability rights legislation (P.L. 93-112, P.L. 103-336, etc.) and global disability rights initiatives (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and comparable legislation)
• MLO #2.3.  Explain and analyze legal mandates requiring reasonable accommodations needed by people with disabilities in daily living, the workplace, public services, public accommodations, and education.
• MLO #5.3.  Examine and critique the availability of and participation of people with disabilities in professional athletics as a function of societal beliefs about the capabilities of people with disabilities.
• MLO #5.6.  Discuss and apply the principles of reasonable accommodations and other inclusive practices to the support of children with disabilities in the classroom and the impact on their peers.
• MLO #5.6.  Discuss and apply the principles of reasonable accommodations and other inclusive practices to the support of children with disabilities in the classroom and the impact on their peers.

Knowledge

This discussion will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline: 

Course Objective 1: Analyze and discuss disability as a socially, medically and culturally determined construct.

Tasks

• Prompt:
• How Far Prompt:  How far do you think we've come as a society in respecting the human rights of persons with disabilities? Use evidence from this week's class and videos as evidence of how far and/or how much further we must go. (You must integrate at least 3 sources presented in class within your response as justification or examples in your response.) [L-L, L-Inst, & L-C MLO #2.3 MLO #5.3 MLO #5.6 CLO #6]