-Some men were such awful husbands to their wives. If the husband felt that his

wife was not living up to his standards he would then just send her away and lock

her up in Newark. For simple reasons, maybe he felt she wasn’t keeping up with

the household duties as well as she should be…Conclusion? She would be sent

to Newark for just that reason alone.

Some people were sent there for good reasons but also there are some women

who are sent there just because of what there husband thinks about them

-Newark first opened as an experimental branch of Syracuse state school In 1878.

-Newark state school became an independent institution in 1885.

-The main purpose of this institution was to instruct females only.

-Boys could then finally be admitted in 1932.

-The picture you just saw was a

picture of a disabled person

working out in a field.

-Way back then, people would

have all the individuals with

disabilities work out in the big

open fields doing farm work

because no one would be able

to see them that way.

There are several people in our world today who are born with

some kind of disability. However, years ago they tried to stop the

birth of disabled individuals in a terrible way. In hopes to stop the

birth of more individuals with disabilities…

People would

become sterilized! This means that they would make it so that people with

disabilities are no longer able to produce because they did not

want to take the risk that people with disabilities would end up

giving birth so a child with disabilities. This is known as NEGATIVE

EUGENICS. NEGATIVE EUGENICS states that once this sterilization

has taken place the society would then be “cleansed”.

-It was also believed that many immigrants

were mentally defective and would

contribute to crime. They would under go

tests at Ellis Island to determine their mental

status.

-The Eugenic policy~

If someone was not like “ourselves” they

were less than perfect.

During the middle ages it is was

believed that many towns had

“idiot cages”. These were used

to keep people with disabilities

and mental illnesses “out of

trouble” while providing a

source of entertainment for the

townspeople.

-Little Moron was a book of “jokes” that used humor at the expense of the “Little Moron”

-Unfortunately, the word moron is still used today by many people as a form of criticism.

-The word “moron” was used to describe people with en I.Q. of 50-69

- Today, people with that I.Q. level are described by the American Psychiatric Association as having “mild mental retardation”

-After going through this slide show, I hope that you can now confidently say that everyone as readers will stop saying the R

word.

-The R word is highly degrading and very hurtful. Even if you are

not putting it to use and trying to use it in a hurtful way, it often

times is so offensive no matter what. In other words, even when

the R word is not said to harm someone with a disability, it is so

hurtful.

-Please from now on, try your very best to stop the spread of the

use of the R word!

-You can now see how much of a difference people with disabilities

were treated years ago compared to how they are treated now.

-Everything I included in this slideshow were facts that were brand new

to me! I knew people were treated badly, but I really didn’t think things

got that terrible.

-It was awful and extremely sad to even think that people were treated

that badly. They treated them as if they were some kind of animal.

-However on a positive note, today we have changed all of that and

have very good programs that supply help for those who are disabled