The Childhood Movement: The Parents Movement

The parent movement started in the late 1940's and early 1950s families started to have a different vision for their sons and daughters with disabilities. The first step was organized and the families wanted more services for their children this resulted in the UN declaration of rights of people who are disabled. In the parent movement institutions started to close because the services included more inclusive education also allowing the children and to adults to move back home. It provided other movements like the independent living movement and the self-advocacy movement.The biggest impact it made was allowing the people to return to communities and participate as full citizens. As stated above advocacy also came into play. People with developmental disabilities also began to advocate for their own rights to live as full citizens, and created the self advocacy movement.As a result, attitudes towards people with developmental disabilities have changed dramatically over the last few decades. In this generation people who were …show more content…
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The Williston and Welsh reports were conducted by both men Walter Williston was asked by the Ministry of health to review the care of people with developmental disabilities there were numerous problems associated with the hospitals some include being isolated from the mainstream health, education social and family services.A quote by him states "a century of failure and inhumanity in the large multi-purpose residential hospitals should, in itself, be enough to warn of the inherent weakness in the system and inspire us to look for some better solution."(Myloyalist) His recommendation that insistuations should start to be phased out and integrating the people into the community with residential supports available. The welch report made four recommendations to