Historical Treatment of PWD

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Historical Treatment of PWD 1 Thoughts and reactions to Suffer the Little Children (Pennhurst) Suffer the Little Children is an informative documentary on a state-funded school that accommodates orphans, mental illness victims, and other vulnerable groups in society. The film is persuasive about indignity, mistreatment, and neglect of vulnerable children in society. Watching the incarceration of people without their consent is devastating. b)Do you think people with disabilities are still institutionalized and/or segregated in the United States today? Explain your answer. No, people with disabilities encounter little or no form of segregation in the modern United States. Disability activists work in collaboration with various organizations for equal rights and opportunities for persons living with different types of disabilities. The constitution, federal courts, and federal laws have established the rights of individuals with different forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities. 1 Pick one of the families from the film Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook and discuss that family's experiences with having placed their loved one in a hospital and after Willowbrook. Do you think their experience would be different today? Why or why not. Disabled children and adults encounter different forms of segregation in the United States. Unforgotten: 25 Years after Willowbrook is one of the outstanding documentaries on how inhumane treatment of mentally ill persons at Willowb...