Government Policy Toward Handicapped Individuals

Government Policy Toward Handicapped Individuals

Pfeiffer, David
Giampietro, Michael

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 of disabled persons ever to meet in this country. Two-thirds of the three thousand persons in attendance at the Conference were handicapped with the balance being composed of parents, researchers, providers, and advocates. The White House Conference marked the emergence of the handicapped segment of the population as an identifiable social entity. As a recognition of this development, the article reviews the major policy questions concerning government action in relation to handicapped individuals.

Policy Studies Journal. Autumn77, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p93-101. 9p.

1977-05

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