Indiana Special Olympics and Its Portrayals of People with Intellectual Disabilities, 1969-1989
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) === On July 20, 1968, the first-ever International Special Olympics Games took place in Chicago, Illinois. The following year, two Indiana State University (ISU) professors established Indiana Special Olympics (ISO) and took on the task of n...
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ndltd-IUPUI-oai-scholarworks.iupui.edu-1805-37412019-05-10T15:21:20Z Indiana Special Olympics and Its Portrayals of People with Intellectual Disabilities, 1969-1989 Hayes, Kaelynn Marie Robertson, Nancy Marie, 1956- Shrum, Rebecca K. Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947- Special Olympics intellectual disability mental disability Indiana Sports for people with mental disabilities -- Indiana -- History People with mental disabilities -- Indiana -- History Indiana State University -- Faculty Special Olympics -- History People with mental disabilities -- Indiana -- Terre Haute -- Attitudes People with mental disabilities -- Indiana -- Indianapolis -- Attitudes People with disabilities -- Indiana -- Public opinion Discrimination against people with disabilities Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) On July 20, 1968, the first-ever International Special Olympics Games took place in Chicago, Illinois. The following year, two Indiana State University (ISU) professors established Indiana Special Olympics (ISO) and took on the task of not only planning an annual competition, but also developing training programs and smaller events throughout the state. The organization maintained headquarters on the ISU campus before relocating to Indianapolis in 1989. Over ISO’s first two decades, its small staff expanded its sports programming in the face of financial and logistical challenges. Despite being an athletics organization, ISO focused on more than improving the physical fitness of its participants. The organization intended to change society’s negative views of people with mental disabilities by increasing public awareness and societal inclusion of such individuals. In this effort, how ISO depicted people with mental disabilities had significance. This thesis explores ISO’s growth from 1969 to 1989 and argues that ISO did not create a consistent image of people with intellectual disabilities during this time period. Instead, it conveyed and implied multiple depictions that sometimes contradicted each other. The divergent portrayals reveal that ISO developed at a time when people were both maintaining historical conceptions of disability and creating new ones. 2013-12-10T20:51:46Z 2013-12-10T20:51:46Z 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3741 en_US |
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) === On July 20, 1968, the first-ever International Special Olympics Games took place in Chicago, Illinois. The following year, two Indiana State University (ISU) professors established Indiana Special Olympics (ISO) and took on the task of not only planning an annual competition, but also developing training programs and smaller events throughout the state. The organization maintained headquarters on the ISU campus before relocating to Indianapolis in 1989. Over ISO’s first two decades, its small staff expanded its sports programming in the face of financial and logistical challenges. Despite being an athletics organization, ISO focused on more than improving the physical fitness of its participants. The organization intended to change society’s negative views of people with mental disabilities by increasing public awareness and societal inclusion of such individuals. In this effort, how ISO depicted people with mental disabilities had significance. This thesis explores ISO’s growth from 1969 to 1989 and argues that ISO did not create a consistent image of people with intellectual disabilities during this time period. Instead, it conveyed and implied multiple depictions that sometimes contradicted each other. The divergent portrayals reveal that ISO developed at a time when people were both maintaining historical conceptions of disability and creating new ones. |
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Indiana Special Olympics and Its Portrayals of People with Intellectual Disabilities, 1969-1989 |
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