disability-history-timeline-2013

Achievements of disability rights campaigners1935A group in New York City called‘The League for the Physically Handicapped’is formed to protest against discriminationby the Works Progress Administration.They eventually generate over 1,000jobs nationwide.1948The first Stoke Mandeville Games areheld, later commonly regarded as thebirth of the Paralympic movement.Professor Guttmann begins using sportas an important part of rehabilitationprogrammes and organises a competitionfor 16 paralysed men and women tocoincide with the opening ceremony of the1948 Olympic Games in London.1965The Disablement Income Group is set upto push for reform to social security fordisabled people.1970In response to campaigning by disabledpeople, the introduction of AttendanceAllowance is an attempt to cover the extracosts of disability in the widest sense.1971The National Association for Mental Healthlaunches the MIND campaign to clarifyits policy and aims and to attract funds.It is the Association’s first major publiceducation campaign and is considered sosuccessful that in 1972 it adopts the newname ‘MIND’.1972Jack Ashley (1922-2012),a Parliamentary campaignerfor disabled people,sponsors the pivotalmotion in the Houseof Commons making adistinction between legaland moral obligation.20