How the world of disability has changed in the last 80 years – in pictures
In the past few decades, attitudes towards people with disabilities have changed drastically. Changes to legislation and services have affected people’s lives, while the language around disability has altered – words such as ‘spastic’, ‘cripple’ and ‘cretin’ were once used freely and without thought of offence.
Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People is a charity founded as The Cripples’ Training College in 1935. It’s holding an exhibition called Crippled, Handicapped, Disabled: Living Beyond Labels at the Oxo Tower, London, from 20-24 April 2016. The exhibition opens the charity’s archives to explore attitudes towards disability over its 80-year history