I would like to correct at least one reader’s impression that the book “Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights” inaccurately portrays life behind institutional walls. I offer these thoughts ...
The Pennhurst State School and Hospital for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities closed in 1987. Three years later — on July 26, 1990 — the Americans with Disabilities Act became ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- For almost eight decades, more than 10,000 people with disabilities lived at the Pennhurst State School and Hospital in Chester County. Now, a group of archivists is telling ...
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