ADAPT members blocking the route of a Greyhound Bus because the buses were not equipped with lifts, 1989 Source: http://adaptmuseum.net/gallery/picture.php?/25/tags/7-protest
Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
The JRC is an institution depicted as a “school” for disabled people, and it subjects its residents to painful electric shocks as a part of “aversive therapy”. ADAPT organizers view the JRC as a clear violation of the ADA and Olmstead decision, and, as a result, have demanded that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director Dr. Scott Gottlieb order its closing and ban the devices that administer the shocks, called graduated electronic decelerators (GEDs), which have...
The disability rights movement is an intersectional social movement that began gaining ground in the late 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement. It fights for both legal rights and civil liberties of disabled people and the end of social stigmatization of the disabled identity.
