Invisible Disabilities In The 1800s

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60% of the disabled kids are bullied compared to the 25% of the regular students that are bullied.The obstacles that people with disabilities face are very hard, some people with disabilities can’t live a normal life. Over the years, doctors and scientist came up with new and approved equipment,methods to help people with disabilities to make their life easier. Also there are visible and invisible disabilities. Invisible disabilities are when the person has a disability, but you can't see it just by looking at them. For example, mental disabilities are an invisible disabilities.Throughout history the treatment of disabilities has been better treated in finding new ways to help and make having disabilities easier. In the 1900’s they passed an …show more content…

They shouldn't be treated or seen different. During the late 1800’s people with disabilities were seen as these people who are not wanted in the society. People didn't expect them for who they are. According to http://paul-burtner.dental.ufl.edu ”During the 1800s, people with disabilities were considered meager, tragic, pitiful individuals unfit and unable to contribute to society, except to serve as ridiculed objects of entertainment in circuses and exhibitions. They were assumed to be abnormal and feeble-minded, and numerous persons were forced to undergo sterilization.” people in the 1800s saw the disabled as tragic individuals. The people took pity on them and thought they couldn't have a say in the society. Later views started to change when advancements had change, the technology was better to help the disabled, to make it easier.Proof that this could be found, according to https://www.adl.org/education ”In the 1930s the United States saw the introduction of many new advancements in technology as well as in government assistance, contributing to the self-reliance and self-sufficiency of people with disabilities.”This shows that During the 1900’s they have found new advancements in the technology, the government was letting the disabled have a say in the

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