International Society for Crippled Children

found: The care, cure, and education of the crippled child, 1924:t.p. (International Society for Crippled Children, Elyria, Ohio)

found: Easter Seals Web site, viewed September 4, 2019(In 1919 Edgar Allen and fellow Ohio Rotary Club members founded the National Society for Crippled Children [no publications in NLM/LC databases]. By 1922, the organization became known as the International Society for Crippled Children) - https://www.easterseals.com/nj/shared-components/document-library/allen1.pdf

found: NLM files, August 27, 2019(Founded in 1921, as the National Society for Crippled Children. Name changed to the International Society for Crippled Children in 1922. The national and international organizations were the same body until 1939, when the national organization became an affiliate of the international group. At this time, the National Society for Crippled Children of the United States of America was formed; and the international group was organized as the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples)

found: RI Global WWW history p. (Along the way, there have been four major name changes: The International Society for Crippled Children, 1922; The International Society for the Welfare of Cripples, 1939; The International Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled, 1960; and Rehabilitation International, 1972. These name changes reflect changing social awareness towards disability. At present, the organization is known around the world by the abbreviation of its 1972 name: RI Global) - http://www.riglobal.org/about/history/