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Disability Pride

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Milestones since the ADA (1990) was signed into law

1990

  • The Pennsylvania Early Intervention Services System Act - 212
  • Capital Crawl Protest
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is signed into law

1991

  • Federal Government Make Autism a Special Education Category

1993

  • National Home of Your Own Alliance Founded

1995

  • National Federation of the Blind establishes dial-up synthetic-speech talking newspaper

1996

  • National Federation Telecommunications Act

1998

  • Assistive Technology Act Signed into Law

2001

  • The Commonwealth of Virginia Formally Expresses Regret for Eugenics

2004

  • First Disability Pride Parade, Chicago

2007

  • Road-To-Freedom Tour

2008

  • West Virginia Requires Disability History to be Taught in Schools

2009

  • Rosa's Law Enacted

2012

  • Philadelphia Disability Pride Celebration

2017

  • ADAPT Activists Fight to Save Affordable Care Act / Medicaid

 

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Portion of “Straight Diagonal” version of the Disability Pride Flag: A charcoal grey flag with a diagonal band from the top left to bottom right corner, made up of five parallel stripes in red, gold, pale grey, blue, and green

What is Disability Pride?

Unlike Disability Employment Awareness Month in October or Disability Awareness Month in March, Disability Pride Month in July celebrates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) signed into law on July 26, 1990.

Disability Pride Month centers the people of the disabled community over clinical diagnoses and encourages everyone to become better allies. 

Sources:

Youth Disability Advocacy Service: What is Disability Pride?

Videos about the History of Disability Activism

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