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)
