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• 2/3 of Americans with disabilities between the ages 16- 64 are not working although many of them do want to work. • More that 43 million possess one or more physical/mental disabilities. • Since 1990 when the ADA was passed, over one million disabled people have entered the labor force. • October is national disability employment awareness month. • In the earlier years, people used to place children with a mental illness in institutions or hospitals because their parents couldn't handle them. •20 years ago, a child with a disability was placed into a mental institution where they would probably spend the rest of there life. •In the 1700's, there was little or no tolerance with children that had a disability and they were slowly beaten. •In Ancient Rome, it was legal to drown your child if it was disfigured or had some type of disability. •In the earlier years, people that had a child with a disability thought that it was a way God was punishing them for something that they had done. •The section 504 plan states " Any person who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major activities in life". No qualified individual with a disability can not be excluded from, or denied the benefits of, or subject to discrimination. •In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the HIV virus (AIDS), is considered a disability. • Many other countrues have laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act •The education of all handicaped children act was passed in 1975. • The rehabilitiation act of 1973 was one of the first laws to change the way of life for a disabild person • The many wars that took place between 1940 and 1985 greatly impacted the disabilities rights movement

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