Disability History Month

This president signs the social security act, establishing a program of permanent assistance to adults w/ disabilities.

Found the Special Olympics to provide training and competition for persons with intellectual disabilities

Makes the first step in identifying Cerebral Palsy by describing children with stiff and/or spastic muscles in ligaments

This person begins extensive study of dyslexia, hypothesizing that it could be neurological versus visual.

This person invents the raised point alphabet for the blind that makes him a household name.

This person develops techniques to improve the health of injured veterans from World War II

Injured in a bus accident breaking many bones in her body, she takes up painting and becomes an influential artist.

Established the institution for blind children and discovered blind people can read texts printed with raised letters.

Considered the father of American psychiatry, and published the first modern attempts to explain mental disorders.

Developed classification for major mental illness: melancholy, dementia, mania without delirium, and mania with delirium