Speech: Mental Retardation

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Speech: Mental Retardation MR/DD INDIVIDUALS PLACE IN FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY I HAVE WORKED WITH MRDD FOR 7 YEARS, SENSE I WAS 16 IN THE PAST -- EARLY 1900'S *****1970s MRDD PLACED IN STATE INSTITUTIONS WHOLE SEGMENT OF POPULATION IN THE USA THAT WAS FOR THE MOST PART RAISED WITHOUT FAMILYS MOST FAMILYS THAT GAVE BIRTH TO MRDD -- WERE TOLD THAT PLACEMENT IN A STATE HOSPTIAL WAS THE BEST THING THEY COULD DO FOR THE CHILD TYPES OF CHILREN- MENTALLY RETARDED, BRAIN INJURY, EPILEPTIC, SPINA BIFFIDA, MENTALLY ILL, EVEN SOMETIMES CHILDREN OF UNWED MOTHERS, POOR CHILDREN, ORPHANS, ESP IMMIGRANTS MENTAL ILLNESS AND DISABLITYS BLAIMED ON MORAL CAUSES- OTHER PREVAILING THEORIES THOUGHT THAT SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOMS WERE CAUSING INSANITY- SEVERELY LIMITING FREEDOM OUTSIDE THE ASYLUM WOULD CURE PATIENTS. BELIEVED MENTALLY ILL AND DISABLED COULD BE COAXED INTO NORMAL ADULT HOOD THOUGH PUNISHMENT, CONFINEMENT AND MORAL TRAINING FAMILYS THAT DID RAISE MRDD AT HOME, FACED NO RESOURCES IN COMMUNITY TO HELP THEM. COMMUNITY NOT ACCEPTING OF MRDD -- VERY STRONG STIGMAS FOR DISABLED AND THEIR FAMILYS. STATE INSTITUTIONS OR MENTAL HOSPITALS HOUSED 1000'S OF PATIENTS- SCIZOPHRENICS, DISABLED, CHILDEN, ADULTS IMAGINE GROWING UP -- FROM A INFANT MOST TIMES IN A ENVIORMENT WHERE THERE WERE- HOSPITAL LIKE WARDS, NO PERSONAL POSSETIONS NO CHOICE IN YOUR ROOM- CLOTHES- WHAT TIME TO EAT, DRESS, GET UP, BATH, WORK,SLEEP, NO PRIVACY- OFTEN GROUP SHOWERS- TOLIETS- NO OR LITTLE EDUCATION OR TRAINING NO COMFORTS- HUGE DAYROOMS-PLAIN BEDROOMS NO RIGHTS NO RIGHT TO REFUSE MEDICATION- OR ANY TYPE OF MEDICAL TREATMENT - LOBOTOMY- ... ... middle of paper ... ...AND ALLOWS THEM A JOB, FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND EDUCATION- WE ARE COMEING UPON A WHOLE GENERATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABLITYS WHO FINALLY HAVE ACCESSS TO THE THINGS THEY DESERVE- LIFE- LIBERTY AND THE PRESUIT OF HAPPINESS NOW I WANT TO SHOW A VIDEO -- A DOCUMENTARY FROM A STATE HOSPITAL IN CALIFONIA THIS IS A LOCKED PSYCIATRIC WARD OF A LARGE HOSPITAL IN CALIFORNIA THOUGH, THESE PATIENTS ARE MOSTLY MENTALLY ILL, NOT MENTALLY DISABLED -- I WANT YOU TO REALIZE WHAT STATE HOSPTIALS WERE LIKE. IN HOSPITALS LIKE THIS -- MANY PEOPLE SPENT THEIR ENTIRE LIVES. WATCH THIS AND IMAGINE- NOTICE THE ROOMS- BARE AND EMPTY NOTICE THE NEGLECT NOTICE THE LACK OF PRIVICAY NOTICE THE MEDICATION -- HEAVEY TRANQIZLIERS THAT KEPT THE WARD QUIET- AND OVERMEDICATED ZOMBIE PATIENTS IMAGINE THIS EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE AND NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN

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