I had the opportunity to listen to a guest speaker by the name of Dr. Kiesling. He works in the Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities, which is in the same building as our Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center. Dr. Kiesling covered the history of disability that happened throughout the United States. What I got out of the lecture was very interesting and I hope you enjoy learning a little bit about it!
The history began in the early 1900's, when people were depicting those with disabilities as "feeble-minded" and relating it to criminality. Come 1920-1965 there was a eugenics movement, to try to "weed out" those who had diseases or disabilities. There were institutions built throughout each state that housed those with significant disabilities and even those with minor conditions,
