Members - FREE

Non-Members - $20

Virtual Meeting 7:00 pm 

Please note - These sessions are not recorded for future viewing.

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Number of Contact Hours: 1.0

Link to Webinar will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Facilitator: Susanne Giannitti OTR/L

Bio/Background of the Speakers:

ConnOTA community of practice members are OT practitioners who are actively working in home care, who have worked in home care, or are seeking to work in home care.  Members bring their expertise and skillset as well as questions and a strong desire to use social learning theory to learn, share, and pool knowledge.

Learning Objectives Attendees Should Achieve:

This hour-long presentation and discussion will allow participants to:

1. Gain an understanding of the history of how the Americans with Disabilities Act came into law.
2. See firsthand and what the disabled campers in the documentary “Crip Camp” had to go through to be viewed as “people”.
3. Reflect on our role as occupational practitioners on what needs to be done to further equality whether a disability is visible or not.

Summary of Event:

“Crip Camp” and the Disabilities Rights Movement

We will be discussing the 2020 documentary “Crip Camp” which can be viewed on Netflix or YouTube prior to this meeting. How did a “band” of disabled teenagers from Camp Jenet in 1971 go on to be the disability rights advocates? We will see how in 1973 Section 504 provided limited protection but further legislation to ban discrimination and provide access to buildings and services etc. was needed. It took 18 more years (1990) to pass The Americans with Disabilities Act. We will listen to and discuss the TED Talk with Judy Heumann on “Our Fight for Disability Rights and Why We Are Not Done Yet”.

This event is sponsored by Connecticut occupational therapy practitioners. ConnOTA is supporting this event by overseeing the award of CEUs for registered participants.