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Impact of Disabilities:
Home, Community, and
Workplace
August 24, 2021
Course Information
• General education requirement for diversity
• Meetings:
– Tuesdays, periods 10 & 11 (5:10-7:05pm)
– Web activities in lieu of Thursday class meetings
• Course web site on Canvas
– www.lss.at.ufl.edu
• Course email:
– Canvas “Inbox”
EEX 2000
Impact of Disabilities: Home, Community, and Workplace
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Lectures
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS
Homework Assignments
Movie Review Application Activity
Exams
Readings
Videos
Homework Assignments
CRITICAL CONCEPTS
Disability:
Characteristics
Perceptions
Expectations
Types of
Disabilities:
Cognitive;
Physical;
Behavioral;
Autism
People with
Interacting with People
Disabilities:
with Disabilities:
Ability
Inclusion
Self-determination
Accommodation
Support
Learned in these Units
Community & Workplace:
Families:
General Participation;
Residential Options;
Parenting children
with disabilities; Siblings;
Parents with disabilities
Education; Citizenship
Discrimination;
Successful Workplaces
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Packback
• Platform for online discussions that fosters critical
thinking, etc.
• Critical questioning deepens understanding
• Also useful in life…..asking job-related interview
questions, finding opportunities for innovation, working
as a team, etc.
• Packback for EEX2000
• Develop strong foundational knowledge of disability
• Recognize implications of disability in a variety of
settings
• Apply disability knowledge in every day life, novel
situations, etc.
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within questions and
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who defend their
perspective by citing
the post easier, more
interesting and more
insightful to read.
data and research.
each individual post.
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studying if the post
added new and
unique value.
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Lectures
Lecture
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to integrate and apply
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Generating
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Quizzes
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Proving Understanding of
course information and
concepts.
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Plagiarism
Closed ended questions
Class logistics
Low effort / Low detailx posts
Good Packback Posts
https://help.packback.co/hc/en-us/articles/115000684052-How-do-I-create-a-good-quality-post-
• Post 1 – Question related to the week’s topic.
– Open ended
– Intended to facilitate thinking about the topic
– Don’t be overly general.x Be specific.
• Providing scenarios as part of the question is helpful.
• Connect to topics from other weeks, applicable courses,
etc.
• Posts 2 & 3 – Responses to two classmates
– Consider responses mini essays – not just an answer
– Include outside sources, graphics, images, etc.
Historical Perspectives
on Disability
Museum of disABILITY History
www.museumofdisability.org
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Disabilities in History
• Documentation of people with disabilities
goes back centuries.
• Different terms have been used to describe
people with disabilities.
Words used for PWD?
Disabilities in History
• References to people with disabilities are
found in accounts related to
• Social circumstances
• Public policies and practices
• Judicial records
Examples through History
Ancient Civilizations
• 800 BC: Spartans
• Decided if weak children
would be raised or left to die
• 449 BC: Twelve Tables of
Rome
• “A father shall immediately
put to death a son recently
born, who is a monster, or has
a form different from that of
members of the human race.”
(www.constitution.org/sps/sps01_1.htm)
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Examples through History
Ancient Civilizations
• 400 BC: Hippocrates
– Refuted the idea that epilepsy
was a curse or caused by the
gods
• 360 BC: Plato
– Plato’s Republic endorses
selective breeding to improve
society and eliminate
defects/weaknesses
Examples through History
Middle Ages
• 15th Century: Court fools
– People with physical or
mental disabilities
• 1494: “The Hammer of the
Witches”
– Seizures were indicative of
being “against God”
– Endorsed by the Pope
Examples through History
Modern Ages
• 1600’s: Elizabethan Poor
Laws established
– Refers to “impotent poor”
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Examples through History
Modern Ages
• 1824: Almshouses
opened in New York
– “for lunatics, idiots, and
epileptics”
• 1854: New York
Asylum for Idiots
established
• 1866: Idiot School
opened at Randall’s
Island
Examples through History
Modern Ages
• 1840: P. T. Barnum’s
freak shows featured
people with physical
differences as forms of
entertainment
• 1845: Dorothea Dix
works to establish
separate facilities
for people with
mental disabilities
and mental illness.
Examples through History
Modern Ages
• 1877: The Jukes: A Study in Crime,
Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity
• 1878: NY State Asylum for Feeble-Minded
Women of Child-Bearing Age
– For “inherently promiscuous women and their
crime-prone offspring”
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Examples through History
Modern Ages
• 1883: The term eugenics
coined by Sir Francis Galton
The study of or belief in the possibility of improving the
qualities of the human species or a human population,
esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by
persons having genetic defects or presumed to have
inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or
encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have
inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).
www.dictionary.com
Examples through History
Modern Ages
• 1887: Anne Sullivan is
hired to teach Helen Keller
Examples through History
Modern Ages
• 1899: Dr. Harry Sharp and the Indiana
Reform School
– Involuntary vasectomies performed on
residents
– Lead to legislation legalizing forced
sterilization
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Examples through History
More Recent History
• 1907: Compulsory
Sterilization Law passed in
Indiana
– Targeted criminals and
“feeble-minded”
– Began move toward forced
sterilization laws in many
states
• 1909: Idiot’s Club
• 1910: Eugenics Record Office
established
Themes Throughout History
• Identify three themes about disability or
PWD that can be seen in history.
Themes Throughout History
• Fear/rejection of unknown
• Fear/rejection of difference
• Assumption of failure
• Aesthetic
• Moral
• Economic
• Assumption that difference should be eliminated
/ “fixed”
• Segregation of individuals with differences
• Disability is grouped with poverty and criminality
• Judgments made based upon “normal” standards
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Coming up…
• Read
– 6 Types of Ableism….
• Online Activity
– Abandoned to Their Fate video clips
– Online submission – descriptions of failure
• Due Monday, August 30
– Packback Discussion
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