Reference no: EM13560096
1. Why did each of the authors write this book?
2. What is the main point of each Preface?
3. Why is President Franklin D. Roosevelt such a significant figure in the movement?
4. What made the League of the Physically Handicapped such a groundbreaking organization?
5. How was the March of Dimes different from the parent-initiated childhood disability organizations?
6. Why did people with disabilities find the Poster Child and the Telethons so demeaning?
7. How did the views of disability change over the years from the founding of our nation until recent years? (Refer to the story of Randolph Bourne.)
8. Describe the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
9. Why does the ADA serve not only people with disabilities, but also the wider society?
10. Why can the ADA be considered everyone's insurance policy against discrimination?
11. Explain why the disability rights movement is a by-product of the technological revolution.
12. What examples does Chapter 9 provide of the movement being a by-product of the technological revolution?
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