- In 1966 Mencap started the Gateway clubs,
offering sports and leisure opportunities for people with a learning
disability.
- In 1969, the society shortened its name to
'Mencap'.
1970s
- In 1975 Mencap's Pathway employment service
began.
- The Mencap Trust Company was set up in 1976 to
provide a discretionary trust service for families.
1980s
- Mencap's influence and campaigning work
saw people with a learning disability included in the Further and Higher
Education Act.
- Mencap set up the first homes and
community-based accommodation for people with a learning disability in the
UK.
- In 1985, Mencap's services for people
with profound and multiple learning disabilities were founded. These were
among the first in the UK.
- A new national survey of disabled people
included people with a learning disability.
- In 1986, Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother became the patron of Mencap.
1990s
- People with a learning disability were
elected as Mencap national assembly members and became fully involved in
decisions about how Mencap is run.
- In 1995 the Disability Discrimination
Act was passed. It aimed to end the discrimination faced by many disabled
people and to guarantee their civil rights.
- In 1998 Golden Lane Housing was
established.
2000s
- In 2001 the government published ‘Valuing
People' white paper.
- In 2004 the Countess of Wessex became Mencap's
patron.
- In 2004 Mencap launched its new five-year
corporate strategy called ‘Equal chances', which focused on securing equal
chances in life for all people with a learning disability.
- In 2005 the government published a report,
‘Improving the life chances of disabled people', and set out plans to
improve the quality of life of disabled people by 2025.
- In 2006 Mencap celebrated 60 years as the
leading UK charity for people with a learning disability.
- In 2008 Mencap rebranded as part of the plans
to make Mencap a more modern and dynamic organisation. This included the
launch of new font, Famed, developed with people with a learning
disability.
- In 2009 The Department of Health published
‘Valuing People Now', a three-year plan for learning
disability services in England.
- In the same year, the UK finally ratified the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It
reaffirmed that disabled people have the same human rights as non-disabled
people.
- 2009 ended on a high, when the International
Paralympic Committee voted to re-include athletes with a learning
disability in the Paralympic Games.
Before and after the twenty
century disabled people were seen as a
burden an extra body and month to feed that cannot do it for themselves, which
there’s still that feeling today, even though that may have improved to how it
was. It’s like we are punished for being
born and as if we chose to be how we are in the first place, which with the
right support etc, we should be able to get by in life equal to other people.
Society tends to even today look more so our negatives than our positives,
which is better than it was, but we still have a long way to go.
This makes us feel more negative about ourselves to a point depression
kicks into us and to one of the reasons why there’s such an increase of
suicides not that I’m saying that all that face depression face disabilities
and I’m not saying all of us who face depression will take our own lives. If
people say a lot of negative about people lots of people are likely to feel
negative about themselves where they could feel life is not worth living.
However,’ life isn’t
always black and white and never was where in the first world war 11914 to
1918, there were about two million ex-servicemen who were looked at as
disabled heroes which changed the attitude which society became slightly
positive toward disabled people. https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1914-1945/
Sadly
thousands of soldiers in the first world war and probably in the second became
disabled for life, those who lived but I think there were who were lucky not to become disabled even though they may have faced being shot in some way, etc.
TB, Polio, rickets, etc was rather common in the first world war, which I
think were classed as disabilities, but I am not sure if it was in the second
world war though. http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/diseases/polio
Autism History.
Leo Kenner had described Autism as Autism Syndrome back in 1943, which is
a specific pattern of abnormal behavior he described as infantile Autism.
Kanner did not have any numbers of people who face the condition.
Over twenty years later, Victor Lotter published an Epidemiological study of
children with behavior patterns by Kanner.
https://www.autism.org.uk/about/what-is/myths-facts-status’s
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