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American Federation for the Physically Handicapped's President Paul Strachan outlines his proposals for an inter-departmental committee on selective job placement of the handicapped, and for a one-year pilot program in Pennsylvania leading to a…

Brochure regarding hospitalization, medical treatment, and related benefits for veterans. Covers hospitalization, out-patient treatment, prosthetics, medical treatment for veterans receiving vocational rehabilitation, and how to apply.

The article presents a discussion about handicapped people in the United States. In the past, most people have treated the handicapped people, like the blind and the deaf, unfairly. Some saw them as bad omens or cursed by gods. Treatment of the…

Speech by President John F. Kennedy to the Kennedy Foundation Mental Retardation Group and given to Mary Hammerbacher (Manner) as a counselor at Camp Shriver, 1962.
Camp Shriver began in Eunice Shriver’s backyard at her Timberlawn estate in 1962.…

How To Bring New Hope to the Mentally Retarded is one of the pamphlets given to the camp counselors at Camp Shriver in 1965 and one of many developed in the 1960s as a heightened public awareness of the mentally disabled was occurring.
From its…

Disability activists a part of ADAPT abandon their wheelchairs and mobility devices and crawl up the steps of the United States Capitol Building, demanding the passage of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) on March 12, 1990. More than 1,000…

The U.S. White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals met in Washington D.C., May 23-27, 1977. It was the first White House Conference devoted solely to the problems and potentials of handicapped people and it brought together the largest number…