-What is corrective deinstitutionalization? -Why is it so hard for the non-mentally disabled to understand or be compassionate toward the unfamiliar without some sort of media representation interference to guide them? -Is there still widespread mistreatment of mentally disabled people in the institutions which they attend? (i.e. special care homes, schools, etc.)
What measures should the government take to ensure that abuse of mentally disabled people in institutions doesn’t happen? 2. How can we educate the public to become more familiar with and understand different disabilities and the people who have them? 3. How are mentally disabled individuals currently represented and perceived in the media?
1. I believe the government needs to have a set of rules and guidelines to ensure that the disabled are being taken care of properly. If there is concerns that this mistreatment is still going on then a representative should supervise and make daily records of what goes on in the institution. If there are any mistreatment then the government needs to take legal action because that is really not okay. 2. I think the best way to help people understand the disabled is to have them around and get to know them. I believe the disabled should be in the mainstream as much as possible. It is good for people to see the disabled, then they will be better able to understand and help them. 3. Today the mentally disabled are represented my the media as unable and incapable. I believe that people often underestimate the capabilities of the disabled. Any challenge can be done successfully with the right will and motivation so no one, not even the media, should feel they can identify the capabilities of a disabled person. They are becoming more capable every day and in 20 years they will be even more so.
1. Throughout the reading it struck me just how easy it became to cast off an entire part of society. Do you think it is out of cruelty or based on how uneducated the nation was about the conditions of the people they were dehumanizing?
2. There were certain negative assumptions made about anyone who was deemed different, or "disturbed" in some way. How can we consider these ideas in relation to educating people with various mental conditions?
3. The issue of sterilization tied to people with mental disabilities brings up the idea that people, specifically the nations leaders in this circumstance, become nervous about those who are different from them. How can we use this example along with other known cruelties in history to think about teaching for diversity?
Is it a normalization that we are striving for as a society for those who may be mentally challenged or is it a certain sense of functionality and independence that we are aiming for in favor of normality?
It seems like in contrast to the 1920s, when people were committed for reasonable mental instability, today many more people in our new normal have varying forms of mental or psychological challenges. Is this because we are considerably more tolerant so more people are aware or vocal about their needs or is it something that is truly more apparent?
Is it better to treat those who are mentally challenged as people who are decisively different than “able-minded people” or should ideas such as inclusion classes be explored in education? Are self-contained classrooms even a label anymore about mental capacity or simply a differentiation in learning styles, which can be more thoroughly addressed in a smaller personalized setting?
1) How have the beliefs and attitudes of the US human society changed and shaped in the past 30 years?
2) Why do you think many of the mentally disabled are forced onto the streets as opposed to individuals making a more progressive, better community for them? Do you think it has to do with stigma, laziness, lack of care, or something else?
3) What does the reading mean when it utilizes the word, otherness? What makes someone be considered an other? Do you percieve this has something extremely negative?
There seems to be a lack of understanding about the condition of the mental disabled. How can we as educators help them understand? How can we truly represent the disabled when we may truly not what they need and want? We can't just assume. Has the lives of the mentally disabled really improved or has the media blinded us to the truth about their conditions?
In response to your first question, I think that we need to share our knowledge of Down Syndrome to reduce the ignorance. I don't mean ignorance in a negative connotation because I think that if a person is not around someone with down syndrome, they are left with their own assumptions. That could be true for almost anything really. The word needs to get out and awareness needs to be had.
1. Did the general public in the 19th and 20th century have any idea about the mentally disabled? Was there a void of knowledge, or were they given inaccurate information? If they were aware, did they seriously think that the disabled are conscious of nothing as the article brings out? In most cases, would you say the ignorance of the people was a matter of morals or misunderstanding?
2. Were "normal people" of the early 20th century that created the injustices truly afraid that the disabled would "overrun them" (pg. 110)? Or was this simply an excuse to cover their true endeavors: to save money, time and their efforts?
3. The epilogue asks how one would react to seeing a disabled child modeling in a flyer (p.261). Do you think placing disabled children in the forefront of society would be beneficial to them? If it is not, do you think it might be eventually, or even some point in the future help erase the idea of what is "normal"?
1. The articles states that there are still homes/care facilities for mentally challenged people that still abuse and mistreat them. Why, knowing today of the wretched history of mistreatment and abuse, is there no government intervention in places like this? Shouldn't there be codes of conduct that must be followed and upheld?
2. I find it shocking that as recent as one century ago, mentally disturbed and mentally retarded people were being classified and generalized in the same manor. Why did no one note the severe differences between these people and try to help them in ways relevant to them and their lives?
3. How could a forced and unknowing sterilization be considered constitutional and acceptable? And how was it fair that someone decided these things for other human beings without their consent or opinion... that forced sterilization was "so much slighter a sacrifice than death?"
Throughout the reading I became curious as to how the families of the patients felt about he sterilization of their loved ones. Do you think there were any families that protested the sterilization? Do you think any families succeeded in keeping their loved one from being sterilized?
At one point in the reading it was said that sterilization was better than the alternative, death. Do you think that people really thought that the only other alternative was death? Or do you think that people did not think there could be any other way of coping and helping the disabled?
It seems that people were lead to believe that sterilization saved people money on taxes? Do you think this was truly the case or do you think people were lead to believe this so they would not protest the sterilization?
1. Why would the government intentionally overlook critical societal needs and fail to financial help with meeting the needs?
2. Why would the liberals and conservatives in government differ in helping institutions with very much needed funds by public funds?
3. Do social reforms of the Progressive Era represent the “extinction of the franchise of life, liberty, and happiness or an extension of the machineries of surveillance?” as questioned in this reading.
4. Why does the writer view Special Sitters as an advantage over the mental hospitals of the 1940’s?
1. Why would any one want to change the story of the history of mental retardation? If it is true that history repeats itself, would a more positive history make it easier for events like these more feasible in the future?
2. The problems in the past regarding the mentally and physically disabled were due to uncertainty and the unknown, are the problems we have today because of the same reasons? What are the problems today and how do they compare to those of the past?
3. Throughout history mental and physical disabilities were not accepted, what is it like now? Are mentally and physically disabled people accepted and understood or just tolerated?
-What is corrective deinstitutionalization?
ReplyDelete-Why is it so hard for the non-mentally disabled to understand or be compassionate toward the unfamiliar without some sort of media representation interference to guide them?
-Is there still widespread mistreatment of mentally disabled people in the institutions which they attend? (i.e. special care homes, schools, etc.)
What measures should the government take to ensure that abuse of mentally disabled people in institutions doesn’t happen?
ReplyDelete2. How can we educate the public to become more familiar with and understand different disabilities and the people who have them?
3. How are mentally disabled individuals currently represented and perceived in the media?
Bethany Hall
Delete1. I believe the government needs to have a set of rules and guidelines to ensure that the disabled are being taken care of properly. If there is concerns that this mistreatment is still going on then a representative should supervise and make daily records of what goes on in the institution. If there are any mistreatment then the government needs to take legal action because that is really not okay.
2. I think the best way to help people understand the disabled is to have them around and get to know them. I believe the disabled should be in the mainstream as much as possible. It is good for people to see the disabled, then they will be better able to understand and help them.
3. Today the mentally disabled are represented my the media as unable and incapable. I believe that people often underestimate the capabilities of the disabled. Any challenge can be done successfully with the right will and motivation so no one, not even the media, should feel they can identify the capabilities of a disabled person. They are becoming more capable every day and in 20 years they will be even more so.
1. Throughout the reading it struck me just how easy it became to cast off an entire part of society. Do you think it is out of cruelty or based on how uneducated the nation was about the conditions of the people they were dehumanizing?
ReplyDelete2. There were certain negative assumptions made about anyone who was deemed different, or "disturbed" in some way. How can we consider these ideas in relation to educating people with various mental conditions?
3. The issue of sterilization tied to people with mental disabilities brings up the idea that people, specifically the nations leaders in this circumstance, become nervous about those who are different from them. How can we use this example along with other known cruelties in history to think about teaching for diversity?
Is it a normalization that we are striving for as a society for those who may be mentally challenged or is it a certain sense of functionality and independence that we are aiming for in favor of normality?
ReplyDeleteIt seems like in contrast to the 1920s, when people were committed for reasonable mental instability, today many more people in our new normal have varying forms of mental or psychological challenges. Is this because we are considerably more tolerant so more people are aware or vocal about their needs or is it something that is truly more apparent?
Is it better to treat those who are mentally challenged as people who are decisively different than “able-minded people” or should ideas such as inclusion classes be explored in education? Are self-contained classrooms even a label anymore about mental capacity or simply a differentiation in learning styles, which can be more thoroughly addressed in a smaller personalized setting?
1) How have the beliefs and attitudes of the US human society changed and shaped in the past 30 years?
ReplyDelete2) Why do you think many of the mentally disabled are forced onto the streets as opposed to individuals making a more progressive, better community for them? Do you think it has to do with stigma, laziness, lack of care, or something else?
3) What does the reading mean when it utilizes the word, otherness? What makes someone be considered an other? Do you percieve this has something extremely negative?
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ReplyDeleteThere seems to be a lack of understanding about the condition of the mental disabled. How can we as educators help them understand?
ReplyDeleteHow can we truly represent the disabled when we may truly not what they need and want? We can't just assume.
Has the lives of the mentally disabled really improved or has the media blinded us to the truth about their conditions?
In response to your first question, I think that we need to share our knowledge of Down Syndrome to reduce the ignorance. I don't mean ignorance in a negative connotation because I think that if a person is not around someone with down syndrome, they are left with their own assumptions. That could be true for almost anything really. The word needs to get out and awareness needs to be had.
Delete1. Did the general public in the 19th and 20th century have any idea about the mentally disabled? Was there a void of knowledge, or were they given inaccurate information? If they were aware, did they seriously think that the disabled are conscious of nothing as the article brings out? In most cases, would you say the ignorance of the people was a matter of morals or misunderstanding?
ReplyDelete2. Were "normal people" of the early 20th century that created the injustices truly afraid that the disabled would "overrun them" (pg. 110)? Or was this simply an excuse to cover their true endeavors: to save money, time and their efforts?
3. The epilogue asks how one would react to seeing a disabled child modeling in a flyer (p.261). Do you think placing disabled children in the forefront of society would be beneficial to them? If it is not, do you think it might be eventually, or even some point in the future help erase the idea of what is "normal"?
1. The articles states that there are still homes/care facilities for mentally challenged people that still abuse and mistreat them. Why, knowing today of the wretched history of mistreatment and abuse, is there no government intervention in places like this? Shouldn't there be codes of conduct that must be followed and upheld?
ReplyDelete2. I find it shocking that as recent as one century ago, mentally disturbed and mentally retarded people were being classified and generalized in the same manor. Why did no one note the severe differences between these people and try to help them in ways relevant to them and their lives?
3. How could a forced and unknowing sterilization be considered constitutional and acceptable? And how was it fair that someone decided these things for other human beings without their consent or opinion... that forced sterilization was "so much slighter a sacrifice than death?"
Throughout the reading I became curious as to how the families of the patients felt about he sterilization of their loved ones. Do you think there were any families that protested the sterilization? Do you think any families succeeded in keeping their loved one from being sterilized?
ReplyDeleteAt one point in the reading it was said that sterilization was better than the alternative, death. Do you think that people really thought that the only other alternative was death? Or do you think that people did not think there could be any other way of coping and helping the disabled?
It seems that people were lead to believe that sterilization saved people money on taxes? Do you think this was truly the case or do you think people were lead to believe this so they would not protest the sterilization?
Freida Wright
ReplyDeleteDisability Studies
8/31/12Questions
1. Why would the government intentionally overlook critical societal needs and fail to financial help with meeting the needs?
2. Why would the liberals and conservatives in government differ in helping institutions with very much needed funds by public funds?
3. Do social reforms of the Progressive Era represent the “extinction of the franchise of life, liberty, and happiness or an extension of the machineries of surveillance?” as questioned in this reading.
4. Why does the writer view Special Sitters as an advantage over the mental hospitals of the 1940’s?
1. Why would any one want to change the story of the history of mental retardation? If it is true that history repeats itself, would a more positive history make it easier for events like these more feasible in the future?
ReplyDelete2. The problems in the past regarding the mentally and physically disabled were due to uncertainty and the unknown, are the problems we have today because of the same reasons? What are the problems today and how do they compare to those of the past?
3. Throughout history mental and physical disabilities were not accepted, what is it like now? Are mentally and physically disabled people accepted and understood or just tolerated?