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| العنوان: |
The Race for Rehabilitation: Sign-Mime, the National Theatre of the Deaf, and Cold War Internationalism. |
| المؤلفون: |
McKelvey, Patrick |
| المصدر: |
Theatre Survey; Jan2023, Vol. 64 Issue 1, p49-70, 22p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
COLD War, 1945-1991, DISABILITY rights movement, VOCATIONAL rehabilitation, PEOPLE with disabilities, WORLD War II, DEAF people |
| People: |
O'NEILL, Eugene, 1888-1953 |
| مستخلص: |
In 1967, the US Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (VRA) awarded $331,000 to the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Foundation to fund a new company, the National Theatre of the Deaf. Endowing such an enterprise was bold, but not entirely unprecedented for this federal agency tasked with restoring disabled Americans to productive employment. Founded in 1920, the federal–state vocational rehabilitation program, or VR, ascended to institutional and ideological prominence during World War II and maintained this position well into the 1960s and beyond. VR distinguished itself not only through positing competitive employment as the solution to disabled Americans' dependence on the state, but the specific means through which it would restore the disabled to productivity: the multidisciplinary expertise of physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, and rehabilitation counselors who collectively sought to render rehabilitants employable through a series of therapeutic interventions. Whereas disability activists focused on combatting the structural barriers disabled workers experienced in the labor market, "rehabilitationists" emphasized the imperative for disabled people to acclimate to existing work environments through individual physical and psychological transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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