Historical Treatment of PWD
After completing the readings, and watching 25 Years After Willowbrook, Suffer the Little Children and Our World: The World's Most Dangerous Hospital (Links to an external site.) please answer the following questions (250-300 words total). Please make sure to number your answers.
1) a) Thoughts and reactions to Suffer the Little Children (Pennhurst)
1) b) Do you think people with disabilities are still institutionalized and/or segregated in the United States today? Explain your answer.
2) Pick one of the families from the film Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook and discuss that family's experiences with having placed their loved one in a hospital and after Willowbrook. Do you think their experience would be different today? Why or why not.
3) Based on the readings/videos on the history of disability, what beliefs about disability remain and which ones have changed? Think about the different stigmas about certain disabilities and which have changed over time and which do you feel are still around today. Explain your answer.
4) a) Thoughts and reactions to Our World: The World's Most Dangerous Hospital
4 b) As a global society what do you feel is our ethical responsibility when we learn about the mistreatment of PWD?
Films:
25 Years After Willowbrook
Suffer the Little Children
Our World: The World's Most Dangerous Hospital
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