NURS1545 Preparation For Learning Disabilities Nursing

Historical Perspectives on Disability

Before 1960s, disable people were always enslaved in government institutions. People who are suffering from mental illness, physical or sensory disabilities, and developmental disabilities were kept in inhumane and appalling conditions frequently far worse than crime offenders were treated. Deinstitutionalization is a plan, which started to happen during the 1960s whereby people with critical disabilities were slowly released from schools to go back to their people where medication was to be provided (Pelka, 2012). This step created an opportunity for the first time in history of America a commanding, for individuals with disabilities to live independently and have more freedom.

From this, a society and a nation with history, objective, and values were initiated. Along any minority, the actual fight would emerge in captivating the public support. The programme headed for deinstitutionalization emerged through activism of disability, though another historically vital aspect was the initiation of latest technologies as well as medication attached with a hope of even good technology (Wilde, 2004).  Though the deinstitutionalization was a triumph for people with disability, people have not believed that disable people were wholly entitled to their human and civil rights irrespective of disability.

Freedom from government schools emerged from the community of disability started to know that our civil and human rights freedoms would emerge only as people fought for them, also that we would have to fight in the path for the voice of the public to be heard in Washington so as to ratify civil and anti-discrimination rights (Albrecht, 2006), which applied to individuals with disabilities directly. Along with most government institutions closed, individuals with critical disabilities emerged more visible, and louder as well. Although unwelcome attitude of the society did not transformed.

This condition formed a chance for the secluded medical market to apt the position that was once held by government schools. This situation created an opportunity for the private medical industry to appropriate the position once held by state-run institutions (Albrecht, 2006). Expansion of nursing homes enabled community to get rid of people with disabilities integration while keeping a clean conscience because the industry of home nursing started to spin problem as a cause of social welfare.

References

Pelka, F. (2012). What we have done: An oral history of the disability rights movement. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Wilde, J. W. (2004). The disability journey: A bridge from awareness to action. New York: iUniverse, Inc.

Albrecht, G. L. (2006). Encyclopedia of disability: 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publ.