History of learning disability chapter six

 Before the 1980s, and even after a lot of people with learning disabilities lived in long-stay hospitals, care homes, etc no matter of their disabilities and other problems were. There was not any choice and control, we were always supported by staff. We did not really learn how to do things in life because society saw us as a danger. In the 80s to 90s, most people with disabilities started living out in the community with little support, most long-stay hospitals closed and more started to close in the early to mid-2000s.

In the past, we were treated differently from other people but very slowly over the years we have started to be treated a bit equally, but we still have a long way to go.

 In the 70s, 80s, and before them, many people with disabilities and other problems were abused and bullied by other children and started in school, which was never really believed at the time from my experience and that many others who I went to school with would say the same.

 With not naturally being in school etc for years, I do not know what’s changed since then and what has not today. This was because we were seen but not heard and there was not any way of us providing proof unless someone saw what happened, which was rare if that was the case. I would like to think schools are more aware now, of child counseling, CCT cameras, etc.

 

In most places and situations, people with disabilities and other problems had poor treatment and are neglected but we know there have been some changes for the better again I guess we still have a long way to go and still not everything is known.

In past we have been labeled mentally handicapped, subnormal, mentally backward, eternal, a menace to society, a burden to society, and more, again we know that changes for the better have happened but are not all known and still a long way to go.  https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/media/1749/disabiliyt-timeline-2013.pdf

https://www.dlf.org.uk/content/key-facts

https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1945-to-the-present-day/disability-rehabilitation-and-work/

http://www.open.ac.uk/health-and-social-care/research/shld/timeline-learning-disability-history

https://www.livescience.com/18802-dickens-tiny-tim-diagnosis.html

https://www.lancslearningdisabilityinstitutions.org.uk/content/category/history

In the time period of Charlies Dickens, which was the Victoria era, having disabilities back then was sadly seen as a shameful thing where people with disabilities had no choice but to depend on parents and siblings to a point they became beggars when parents and siblings died. In fact, it was exceedingly rare back then that they lived longer than their parents and siblings.

In the Cricket of the health, there are a few disabled characters, such as the deaf stranger and Bertha who was blind.

 

For mainstream people and disabled people there can never be a perfect life, but it can be better than it is, and it is improved to what it was, it is still not enough. However,’ to try and improve the future of disabled people we need to be looking at how disabled people faced life in the past, also incudes people with other problems too.