Presented by Stephanie Sanford Disability & Violence Advocacy Coordinator Kansas Association of Centers for Independent Living  Nomadic Tribes  Early Christians  Middle Ages  The Renaissance  American Colonists  Western Frontier  “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind…Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”  Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes  Established minimum wage without regard to gender  Enormous increase in number of sheltered workshops for the blind  1935 – Social Security Act passes establishing federal old-age benefits and grants to states for assistance to individuals who are blind and children with disabilities  1950 – Social Security Amendments of 1950 establish a federal-state program to “aid the permanently and totally disabled (APTD)”…prototype for SSDI  “Helpless Cripple Attends UC Classes”  Ed Roberts and the Rolling Quads  Berkeley CIL  " Believing in yourself is the most important thing. It's absolutely critical that you not allow yourself to be isolated, and don’t allow people to say, 'No' and Ed Roberts & Judy Heumann when they do, recognize that they are wrong, you are right... It's only going to change when we demand it. " - Judy Heumann  Civil Rights Movement  Consumerism  Self Help Movement  Demedicalization  Deinstitutionalization • One more contributing factor that moved people with disabilities from il & iit t silence & passivity to activism was that they questioned their second class status  Wolf Wolfensburger, 1972  Canadian sociologist  Based on the principle of  Gerben DeJong, 1979  Proposed a paradigm shift from the “medical model” to “normalization” the “independent living model”  Society was the problem, not the individual • Medical Model • Independent Model Locus of Problem is Person with a Disability Society presents barriers People need to be “fixed” There’s nothing “wrong” with us Medical personnel are decision-makers People with disabilities viewed as “needing care” We are in control of making the decisions that affect us We are your mother, your sister, your neighbor, your friend  Wade Blank  The Grateful Dead  The Atlantis Community in Denver  ADAPT • “Independent living is NOT doing things by yourself. • It is being in control of g how things are done. ” • -Judy Heumann  Section 504  Regulations • It is an historical fact that the privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture but as we are give up their unjust posture, but, as we are reminded, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals. We know, through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed. -MartinLutherKing  Max Starkloff, Charlie Carr and Marca Bristo  Lex Frieden  Justin Dart  Liz Savage and Pat Wright  Signed in 1990  No regulations until 1994  Reauthorization of the ADA continues  Supreme Court interpretation of ADA  Core Services Information and Referral Peer Counseling Advocacy Independent Living Skills Training Deinstitutionalization  Independent Living is alive, it is a movement, we are Independent Living CILs SILCs forging ahead, growing, and evolving APRIL Youth ADAPT NCIL  Stephanie Sanford Disability & Violence Advocacy Coordinator Kansas Association of Centers for Independent Living 214 SW 6th Street, Suite A Topeka, KS 66603-3719 Voice/TT 785-215-8048 Fax 785-215-8050