Ifsheonlyknewme

HISTORY of SPECIAL EDUCATION

  • Jan 1, 1400

    Belief that people with disabilities were possessed by devil (Martin Luther, John Calvin1400-1500)

  • Poor Laws- taxes to pay for care

  • First hospital for people with mental disabilities-Virginia

  • Wild Boy of Aveyron

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    1800’s-Perkins Institute for the Blind-Mass

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    Rise of Asylums-Dorothea Dix (1802-87)-30+ asylums established-better treatment of mentally ill

  • Thomas Gallaudet-American Asylum for the Deaf

  • Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth-experimental boarding school

  • Rhode Island First special class in U.S.

  • H.H. Goddard, director Vineland Training School for Feebleminded Girls and Boys-Movement to lock up “idiots” and “imbeciles” therefore eliminating “defectives” from reproducing-1900's

  • -Dr. Alfred Binet-identify “slow” or “retarded” children-IQ test

  • Franklin D. Rooservelt-32nd President-physical disability "Polio".

  • “Principal of normalization”

  • Parents advocating for public school education for children with disabilities

  • First Center for Independent Living (CIF)

  • Section 504 of Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973

  • President Nixon-executive order returning one-third of the 200,000 people with disabilities in institutions to community residential placements

  • Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142)1986-Amended to include infants and toddlers

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

  • Reauthorization of Elementary and Secondary Education Act-No Child Left Behind (NCLB)