1. Treatment of the Disabled S. Biller A.Warner M. Warner M. White March 15, 2007 8 th Grade World Studies 9 th Period

2. WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM(S) BEING ADDRESSED? maltreatment of the mentally disabled horrible care of the mentally disabled negligence of the mentally disabled mentally ill treated as criminals rather than patients deaf and blind were not being educated

3. WHO WAS IMPACTED BY THESE PROBLEMS? helpless people forgotten people insane people prisoners homeless people mentally retarded women and men blind and deaf people

4. WHAT METHODS WERE USED BY REFORMERS? visiting places where the mentally ill were kept writing numerous reports describing what was observed at the different locations sharing what was observed with the state government and demanding a change advocating for the mentally disabled all over this country and in Europe

5. WHAT CHANGES WERE ACHIEVED BY THE REFORMERS? Dix’s efforts resulted in more than 120 hospitals being built with safer conditions and personnel to help the mentally disabled conditions at mental hospitals in Rome were improved Gallaudet started the first American school for the deaf in Hartford, CT Howe founded the first school for the blind in Boston, MA

6. Cutler, David L. “History of Psychiatry in Oregon.” OHSU Department of Psychiatry. 14 Mar. 2007. Oregon Health & Science University. 14 Mar. 2007. http://www.ohsu.edu/psychiatry/grandrounds/moraltreatment.shtml CREDITS Slide 1 “Memorial to the Massachusetts Legislature (1843).” USINFO – The United States Department of State. 14 Mar. 2007. U. S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs. 14 Mar. 2007.http://usinfo.state.gov/ usa/infousa/facts/democrac/15.htm Dix, Dorothea L. “Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts,” (1843) The History of Mental Retardation, Collected Papers, http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/ docs/737.htm?page=11#58docs/737.htm?page=11#58, paragraph 58, Disability History Museum, www.disabilitymuseum.org (March 14, 2007). www.disabilitymuseum.org Dix, Dorothea L. “Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts,” (1843) The History of Mental Retardation, Collected Papers, http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/ docs/737.htm?page=13#74docs/737.htm?page=13#74, paragraphs 76 and 77, Disability History Museum, www.disabilitymuseum.org (March 14, 2007). www.disabilitymuseum.org Slides 2, 3, 4, and 5