How To Treat People With Disabilities

The treatment of people with abnormalities or disabilities throughout history has drastically changed. The areas of disabilities throughout the years were if a person was considered physically, emotionally, or intellectually handicapped. We have learned about many different influencers and how they have managed to shape the society we live in.
Opening with the Greek Era approximately between 800 B.C and 500 B.C philosophers were the first to try and figure out why people did what they did. One of the most famous philosophers at the time was Aristotle, he was more interested in what made people normal. He believed that if one had an educated mind, a healthy body, and a healthy spirit then they were considered normal. With that belief all three factors were to be equally balanced. To have a healthy spirit one should have appreciation for art and music, simply being around and seeing beautiful buildings and sculptures could feed the spirit. To enhance ones body would be to be physically active and to take good care of the body. Finally to have a healthy state of mind one should be intellectually educated. Aristotle’s beliefs still influence the world present day; most school education systems follow the mind body …show more content…
This was the time of many great psychologists, Charles Darwin considered to be the founder of evolutionary biology, Wilhelm Wundt the founder of psychology, Sigmund Freud, John Watson, B.F Skinner, whom were all influenced by the age of reason. The end of the 1800s was considered the progressive era; people were concerned about getting everyone to live a better life, they wanted to stop child labor, men moved from the farms to cities to work in factories, and women got active with politics. Women and children were seen as property of the man so they fought for the same rights and fortunately in 1919 they passed a law that in 1920 women can