Rehabilitation

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 * =Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago=
 * Camp Easter Seal
 * OSERS' Organizations

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"Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago". Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 29 January 2010 .

The [|Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago] was founded in 1954 by Dr. Paul B. Magnuson. He was an advocate for people with disabilities. This was deeply rooted in the fact that he was the medical director for the Veterans Administration during WWII and wanted to help. Dr. Henry B. Betts came along in 1963 and advanced the program along with its research. In 1985 the RIC got its first federal grant to support the Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System. In 1993 Dr. Joel Press established the Spine and Sports Rehabilitation Center. It is the “#1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America” according to //U.S. News & World Report.//

[Jilliana Walch]

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Celebration of Success: The Beckwith Experience, 25th Anniversary Celebration Program. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.

· Galesburg campus closes in the spring of 1949. The Rehabilitation Program moved to the Urbana Campus in 1949. (5)

· Greenbrier Nursing Home had an unoccupied wing. In 1959, Nugent moved students will severe disabilities there after discussing it with Durward Judy. -Four to five students could live there. -U of I buses would come and take them to and from classes. (5) · In 1961, the Rehabilitation Program moved to Tanbrier Nursing Home. It was a three-story nursing home. Pre-med students(living on the other floors of the house) provided care to the disabled students. (5) · The U of I Board of Trustees approved of the construction of the Beckwith Hall Living Center in October 1997. The building was completed in 1981. It was made possible by a donation from Guy M. Beckwith. Mr. Beckwith died before the building was completed. (9) · Beckwith Hall when it was first built was a two-story building with 20 rooms, a kitchen, a dining hall, library and a lounge. The upper floor houses the live-in staff of six. (9) · A man named Mike Luber who lived in Beckwith Hall from 1981-1985 says that at first it was easier going to a high school where everyone was able-bodied, rather than living with other people who were disabled. In his opinion, living with people who were disabled made him accept his own disability. (12) · A former Beckwith Hall resident Michael Cafferty says that Beckwith Hall provided him with care that words cannot describe how fortunate was to be able to experience its services. Not only does Beckwith Hall provide him with care, it teaches the disabled how to become “intelligent, confident, and self-supporting members of society. He was sworn-in by one of the justices of the Illinois Supreme Court as an attorney on November 9th, 2000. (18-19) · Matt McClure lived in Beckwith Hall from August, 1996 to May, 2001. After a visit to Beckwith Hall as a high schooler, be believed it to be a day-care. When he actually attended it, he realized that it was a place for growth. He said that Beckwith Hall made it easy, because it took away the “disability part of it”. After living there for 9 semesters, he believed that in every semester, he learned something useful. (22-23) · For Matthew Zellmer, a Beckwith resident who arrived in 2004, living in Beckwith Hall was the first place he had lived with people who had a disability or who worked directly with those who did have disabilities. He says that Beckwith Hall was a place that you automatically knew everybody. (27) · Grant Davis, one of the disabled at Beckwith Hall, was there since 2003. He is proud to be part of the Beckwith Hall Mentor Program. He finds giving tours of the campus to the new freshmen really rewarding. He enjoys showing each freshman how to get from one building to another based on their individual schedules. He remembers that the first afternoon there was really nervous. He was terribly scared of leaving his parents. But the people there were really hospitable, and it gave him a sense of how important comfort was to a new freshman. (30-31) [Vinay Shanbhag]

 ORGANIZATIONS "NIDRR: About NIDRR." ED.gov. Department of Education, 19 July 2007. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers /nidrr/about.html>.

NIDRR, a federal organization based out of Washington, D.C., is a leader in funding disability research. Created in 1978, the National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation Research, is one of the three organizations that are a part of OSERS, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. **NIDRR** strives to build a general awareness of people with disabilities. It also works to make the world a better place for those with disabilities. To do this, it has provided training grants to people like Jon Gunderson to help develop technologies to make the world more accessible to people with different disabilities. "Office of Special Education Programs." ED.gov. Department of Education, 19 July 2007. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers /osep/index.html>. ** OSEP ** is dedicated to generating better school results for anyone with a disability under the age of twenty-one. The //Individuals with Disabilities Education Act// authorizes OSEP to generate and distribute formula grants, federal grants with quantifiable elements, to universities and non-for-profits like Beckwith Hall, to assist parents with disabled children. "Rehabilitation Services Administration ." ED.gov. Department of Education, 19 July 2007. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers /rsa/index.html>.

[William Givens]
 * RSA **, The Rehabilitation Services Administration, oversees the distribution of various grants to researchers in the field of rehabilitation, but not in technology, that could assist people with disabilities. The grants help people in such ways as providing employment opportunities as well as teaching disabled people how to live independently. The latter is performed by providing counseling, job training, and medical care.

The Easter Seals The Easter Seals

“The Story of Easter Seals.” //Easter Seals: About Us//. Easter Seals, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. .

In 1907, Ohio businessman Edgar Allen lost his son in a tram accident. His son could not be saved due to the lack of medical resources. The death of his son prompted Edgar Allen to sell his business, and to start a fundraising campaign to found a hospital in his hometown of Elyria, Ohio. Through this hospital, Edgar Allen discovered that disabled kids were often hid from society, and inspired by this knowledge, went on to found the National Society for Crippled Children, which took over for the March of Dimes foundation, after a vaccine for Polio had been discovered. In 1934, the Easter Seals, then known as the National Society for Crippled Children, started their first fundraiser. To show their support, the public placed the Easter Seal, which they had purchased, on the envelopes that they mailed. The message was simple, the charity only asked for people with disabilities to have the simple right of living a normal life. The support given to the Easter Seals organization by the public was overwhelming, and the Easter Seals expanded across the nation. By 1967, the “Easter Seal” was very well recognized, so recognized that the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults has officially adopted it as its symbol, and changed its name to Easter Seal. Today, the Easter Seals offer answers, as well as hope, to more than a million children in the United States. They also offer vocational training, as well as network of camps for disabled children.

[Shawn Lu]