Special Education

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Comments (26)

Aja Wallace (Student 2013)
Aja Wallace

First off I just want to say that your project is amazing! When you were researching this information did you find yourself at a point where it was so much you didn't know how to present it? Did this project inspire you do be a teacher or did you already want to be one before you started this ?

Siani Widman (Student 2013)
Siani Widman

Do you know if in any other countries if the disabled are still being killed or locked up somewhere? Would you consider having a disability be due to mutation in the DNA, etc? And is it genetic?

Samantha Zeisloft (Student 2013)
Samantha Zeisloft

when did people discover that there was no stone of madness? how did this effect the way that people with mental disabilities were treated? how did it effect the way that they were handled (surgeries and treatments) ?

Toni Marshall (Student 2013)
Toni Marshall

There isn't a specific number of the survival rate because it was going on for centuries, I'm sorry. The guy who changed the rules were Philippe Pinel, he was a physicien, he didn't really have a label that meant something he gained that after he stood up for disabled people, he then began to study people with mental illnesses.

Toni Marshall (Student 2013)
Toni Marshall

A lot of the time if the person isn't born with a disability trama from an even that occurred in their lives can trigger it or they could've have gotten sick and never recovered like if the child had seizures constantly it might cause an imbalance. In the 1900's a lot of people who weren't born with a disability got one because of led poison it can come from a number of things.

Toni Marshall (Student 2013)
Toni Marshall

In the late 1800's a lot of intense research was done and yes every disability is treated differently because everyone doesn't respond to the treatments equally.

Toni Marshall (Student 2013)
Toni Marshall

There really isn't surgeries performed now, only if necessary for the health of the person. They have many different activities that they find helpful to people it depends on the disability the person has. For example normally people with autism and cannot talk like music and can communicate with sign language.

Toni Marshall (Student 2013)
Toni Marshall

There was a few situations, such as in the 1800's they would conduct a thing called "The Feast of fools" which is when everyone in the town would gather together and dress as "disabled" people. The logic behind it was that it would eventually become a norm is everyone did it. Also a guy name Philippe Pinel who noticed that people with all sorts of disorders were being put in cages and tied to walls in a hospital so he eventually got enough people together and changed the law of how people with disabilities can be taken care of in those facilities.

Toni Marshall (Student 2013)
Toni Marshall

They have the disability act which grants people with disabilities the equal right to a education and employment. There is a stronger belief in therapy so there isn't electric shock, and random surgeries.

Toni Marshall (Student 2013)
Toni Marshall

They have the disability act which grants people with disabilities the equal right to a education and employment. There is a stronger belief in therapy so there isn't electric shock, and random surgeries.

Toni Marshall (Student 2013)
Toni Marshall

@Matt there is a difference now but there is still a stigma that is why I wanted to make that aware to the public with this project. It comes from the word tardy which just means to be slower. So it's a latin word and tard was the root of that word.

Matt Rinaldi (Student 2013)
Matt Rinaldi
  • Are people with disabilities treated any different now in the modern world?
  • Where did the word "retard" come from and why does it partake in our daily conversations (what made it so popular)?
Quinn Platzer (Student 2013)
Quinn Platzer

What was the survival rate of the surgery, if you know what it is? Who was the man who changed the rules at the asylum, what authority did he have at the time?

Andora Myftaraj (Student 2013)
Andora Myftaraj

What triggers a person to become mentally different if they weren't born with it? What made you want to research this?(you might have mentioned it but i forgot and i don't have it in my notes.)