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Harrison Bergeron is the fourteen-year-old son of George Bergeron and Hazel Bergeron, who is 7 feet (2.1 m) tall, a genius, and an extraordinarily handsome, athletic, strong, and brave person. George Bergeron is Harrison's father and Hazel's husband. A very smart and sensitive character, he is handicapped artificially by the government.
In 1970, the Center Park Apartments for the Handicapped, an innovative seven-story residential building, opened in Seattle, after years of advocacy and extensive input by Daly. [3] In 1973, she and her older sister Hazel Flagler Begeman co-write a book, Adventure in a Wheelchair: Pioneering for the Handicapped, about Ida Daly's life and work.
Leslie Lemke was born prematurely in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1952. As a complication of his premature birth, he developed retinal problems, then glaucoma, and his eyes had to be surgically removed in the first months of life.
Engracia Figueroa, who was a longtime activist for people with disabilities, passed away on Sunday. Her efforts to stand the community lives on. Disability rights activist, who shared her story ...
Johnson called for reform for disabled people. She wanted disabled people to be placed in publicly financed home care provided by family, friends or neighbors, and not institutions. [1] [8] During Johnson's career as an attorney, she specialized in helping clients who could not work in receiving Social Security benefits.
Paul Hunt [1] (1937 – 1979) was an early disability rights activist and leader of disabled people's campaigns in the UK against residential institutions and for independent living. He was born on 9 March 1937 in Angmering , Sussex, with an impairment and he died aged 42 years in London, on 12 July 1979.
"SDS confers the President's Award for artists and activists who embody the goals of the Society, reiterating our commitment to all kinds of work in disability studies. SDS recognizes Judy Heumann for her five-decade career as a disabled activist who has changed the lives of every single disabled person in the United States and across the globe.
Unfortunately, Ashley Brady, a 26-year-old amputee in Ohio had to deal with an unpleasant woman who had parked in a handicapped spot. A note left on Brady's windshield noted in part , "Hey handicap!