The author and producer on an in-development adaptation of her memoir 'Being Heumann' was considered the “mother of the disability rights movement' for her work securing the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Heumann, who began using a wheelchair after contracting polio at the age 2, has been called the “mother of the disability rights movement” for her longtime advocacy on behalf of disabled people through protests and legal action, her website says.
Heumann also was involved in the passage of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was ratified in May 2008. Heumann, who was born in Philadelphia in 1947 in Philadelphia and raised in New York City, was the co-author of her memoir,Her book recounts the struggle her parents experienced while trying to secure a place for their daughter in school. “Kids with disabilities were considered a hardship, economically and socially,” she wrote.
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Judy Heumann, renowned disability rights activist, dies at 75Heumann, who lost her ability to walk at age 2 after contracting polio, has been called the 'mother of the disability rights movement'.
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Judy Heumann, renowned disability rights activist, dies at 75Heumann, who lost her ability to walk at age 2 after contracting polio, has been called the 'mother of the disability rights movement'.
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