Search Results "Epilepsy"

• Research and History > Regulations and Standards History > Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  Epilogue

  Congressman Tony Coelho (D-CA) had epilepsy. Congressman Steny H. Hoyer’s (D-MD) wife had epilepsy....

• Products and Additional Resources > Disability Etiquette > Tips for Interacting with People with Disabilities
  Disability Savvy Quiz

  Rather, they are “people with epilepsy” or people with disabilities....

• Research and History > Regulations and Standards History > Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  Senate Hearings and the Quest for Bipartisanship

  In his senior year of college, Coelho learned he had epilepsy—reputed by some to be demonic possession....

• Research and History > Regulations and Standards History > Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  Contours of Disability in America

  from continuing their kind."6 Although sterilization and segregation practices targeted those classified as “feeble-minded” persons—or people with mental retardation, mental illness, and epilepsy—it...

• Research and History > Regulations and Standards History > Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  Mobilizing the Disability Community

  Pat Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Liz Savage of the Epilepsy Foundation of America (EFA), and Curt Decker of the National Association of Protection...