A similar and more visible effort took place the same year, when Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed from polio, entered the University of California at Berkeley.31 The school housed him in the...
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Growth of the Disability Rights Movement
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Section 6.0 Conclusions
In particular, the impact of progressive diseases like MS, ALS, Parkinson’s Disease and Post Polio Syndrome, on equipment needs requires more information....
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Building Support for S. 933
As with Senators Kennedy and Harkin, Hatch had personal experience with disability through his brother, who lost the use of his legs from polio....
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Grass Roots Activism
Another example was the disability community growing at Brooklyn College in New York, where Denise Figueroa gained a better understanding of living with polio by interacting with other students...
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APPENDIX A
upper extremity amputation [ ] lower extremity amputation [ ] spina bifida [ ] brain injury [ ] muscular dystrophy [ ] stroke [ ] arthritis [ ] cerebral palsy [ ] post-polio...
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National Council on the Handicapped
Dart, who had contracted polio in his teens, went in his wheelchair and with his trademark cowboy hat....
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Epilogue
Hatch’s (R-UT) brotherin- law was paralyzed from polio. Senator Robert Dole (R-KS) acquired partial paralysis from a war injury. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr....
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Congressional Hearings
handicapped antidiscrimination to the private sector so that Dan’s and our visions for his adult life and the lives of many others can finally become a reality."34 Judith Heumann’s polio...