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Hartford Connecticut
Connecticut opens Asylum for Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons in Hartford Connecticut -
Perkins Institution for the Blind
The institution opened with six students, but within six years, it had ten times that number. -
Braille Code Published
Louis Braille first published the raised-dot code that would revolutionize the lives of blind people. With this electronic publication, the National Federation of the Blind is pleased to present Braille's book in a format readily accessible to the blind. -
Howe Estblishes Experimental
n 1848, Samuel Gridley Howe helps establish the Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children, the first school of its kind in the U.S. The goal of the school was to receive funding for research, however this program also sent many children to houses of correction. -
American Printing House
The American Printing House for the Blind is an American non-for-profit corporation in Louisville, Kentucky promoting independent living for people who are blind and visually impaired. For over 150 years APH has created unique products and services to support all aspects of daily life without sight. -
National Deaf Mute College Founded
President Abraham Lincoln signs Gallaudet's charter, allowing the Columbia Institution for Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind to grant collegiate degrees. Congress passes the act on June 28, 1864. A year later, the Columbia Institution for Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb drops "and the Blind" from its name as Congress removes its responsibility to educate blind students. Blind students already at the institution are transferred to the Maryland Institution for the Blind. -
Training for the Teachers of the Blind
Alexander Graham Bell Introduces the Term Special Education. 1884. Formal training for teachers of blind persons begins at Columbia University. 1884 -
College Level training for teachers
President Eliot had aimed the establishment in 1898 of the Johns Hopkins Medical School on the basis of a bachelor’s degree, from which with quite unprecedented academic virtue no single exception has ever been made. This was the first medical school in America of genuine university type, with something approaching adequate endowment, well-equipped laboratories conducted by modern teachers, devoting themselves unreservedly to medical investigation. -
Publish of Intelligence Test
Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon ... Binet was strongly influenced by Charcot, and published four articles about his work in this area. Unfortunately ... In 1905, a new test for measuring intelligence was introduced and simply called the Binet–Simon scale. -
Segregated Classes Public Schools Established
Segregated Classes in the public schools are established as viable alternatives to instructing children with disabilities, the term emotional disturbance comes into use. -
Term Mentally Retarded Introduced
These classes were in general for the mildly retarded, then still known as morons; and it was not until the 1920's that there were introduced in a few localities classes for the moderately retarded, now called "trainables. -
Council for Exceptional Children founded
The International Council for the Education of Exceptional Children is organized by a group of administrators and supervisors attending the summer session at Teachers College, Columbia University, and their faculty members on August 10, 1922. The Council begins with 12 members. Elizabeth E. Farrell was the Founder and first President, 1922-26. -
Leo Kanner Identifies the Characteristics of Children with Autism
Leo Kanner was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for ... In 1943, Kanner published his landmark paper, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact," .... and behavioral characteristics of the children in his seminal paper, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact," published in 1943. Kanner described a distinct syndrome instead of previous depictions of such children as feeble-minded, retarded, moronic, idiotic or schizoid. -
Asperger Syndrome Identified
Hans Asperger was a Viennese child psychologist who published the first definition of Asperger syndrome in 1944. In four boys, he identified a pattern of behavior and abilities that he called "autistic psychopathy", meaning autism (self) and psychopathy (personality disease). The pattern included "a lack of empathy, little ability to form friendships, one-sided conversation, intense absorption in a special interest, and clumsy movements." -
Willowbrook School (NY) Opens
Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disability located in the Willowbrook neighborhood on Staten Island in New York City from 1947 until 1987. The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 it had a population of 6,000. At the time, it was the biggest state-run institution for people with mental disabilities in the United States -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. -
Introduction of Learning Disabilities
Samuel A. Kirk Introduces the term Learning Disabilities. Although the federal government's involvement in learning disabilities through task forces, legislation, and funding has been evident only since the 1960s and 1970s, the roots of learning disabilities can be traced back to the early 1800s. Learning disabilities are one of the newest categories officially recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, but the origins of the concept are long-standing. -
B. Blatt and F. Kaplan Publish Christmas in Purgatory
Christmas in Purgatory is a photographic exposed of life in an institution for those with intellectual disabilities. -
Funding for Special Education
Congress provide funding to disseminate best practices for special eduaction by adding Title VI to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) -
PL 94-142, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975,
Was a landmark legislation at it assured "access" to public education for all children, without regard for disabling condition. It discusses that the notion of equal educational opportunity for all students, including those with disabilities, is now part of the national culture because students with disabilities and their parents exercised their civil rights. The author also discusses the impact of PL 94-142 and provides her views on the number of issues concerning this legislation. -
Americans with Disabilities Enacted
The Americans with Disabilities enacted, EAHCA is amended and renamed the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
The schools' legal responsibility for providing equal educational opportunities for children with disabilities under the 1997 reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). First, an introduction to the American legal system and federal policy on disability is provided. -
No Child Left Behind Act
Increases accountability for the outcome for all students and requires that they are taught by highly qualified teachers -
Reauthorization of IDEA
IDEA raises standards for quality instruction for students with disabilities, elaborates on parent involvement and discipline, and defines highly qualified for special education teachers -
President Obama Signs Rosa's Law
President Obama Signs Rosa's Law, which changes the federal language usage from mental retardation to intellectual disability