SED SE 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deinstitutionalisation, Trenton, New Jersey, Aktion T4

• School: Boston University
• Department: Special Education
• Course: SED SE 250
• Professor: Zachary Rossetti

Document Summary

Impairment: loss or reduced function of a body part or organ. Disability: limitation in performing certain tasks caused by impairment. A problem or disadvantage encountered by someone with an impairment when interacting with the environment. We are not using handicap -> this term is outdated; definition is looped in with disability. Goddard published a book called the kallikak family. Everyone believed when this was published intellectual disability was hereditary. Did not find evidence for all people (goddard lied) Found evidence that the photos were doctored. Eugenics coined by sir francis galton (1883) The belief in hereditary transmission of intellectual and social traits. Eugenics as a program of social action. Told they were having a minor procedure. 1924 court case buck v. bell; decision was to upheld sterilization laws based on the eugenics philosophy. Incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly people, . Connecticut asylum at hartford for the instruction of deaf and.