History
The Arc was founded in 1950 by a small group of parents and other concerned individuals. At that time, the organization claims, there was a lack of awareness about and community programs for children and adults with developmental disabilities and their support families.
In the early days the association worked to create a more positive public perception of children with mental retardation and to assert to parents and others the potential of people with mental retardation. The Arc also worked to procure services for children and adults who were denied day care, preschool, education and work programs.
Read more about this topic: Arc Of The United States
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.”
—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Prof. Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll)
“Anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the “anticipation of Nature.””
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)