Background Information

Talk about how it might feel to have no control over your life. How it might feel to have others make every decision for you. Would you fight to be independent? Should a person with a very significant physical disability be completely independent? Why or why not?

Questions

1. How did Justin get Cerebral Palsy?

2. Why do you think the doctors wanted Justin institutionalized?

3. How many people lived in the institution?

4. What was the food like?

5. Use the word prevented in a sentence.

6. What made Justin get a lawyer?

7. What do you think the assessments proved?

8. Do you think the judge was right to give Justin his independence? Why or why not?

9. What is a Blissboard?

10. What does the word curvature mean?