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  • Collection: Disability History and Advocacy

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Excerpts from MIGHT's 1980 accessibility guide for the University of Texas at Austin. Includes services for students with disabilities, as well as a map of potential accessibility barriers on campus.

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A small pamphlet advertising services available to students with disabilities at UT Austin

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A pamphlet with a hand-drawn cover detailing the counseling and psychological resources available to students at UT Austin

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5" x 7" postcard, three-story brick building with a stone foundation and dormers, inscription on front of image includes: "Nov. 20-05", "They haven't got me yet."

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Volume 1, No. 1 of a newsletter produced by the University of Texas at Austin Services for Handicapped Students.

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A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times Article about the founder of the Texas Mental Hospital Association's efforts to improve mental hospitals in Texas.

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A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times newspaper article about a 14-point plan to improve Texas mental hospitals.

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A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times Article about the rehabilitation of a child at the Children's Unit at Topeka Hospital. Advocates for a similar unit in Texas mental hospitals and for a focus on rehabilitation instead of life in an institution. Part of a…
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