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During the 1400's and 1500's it was theorized by such influential people like Martin Luther and John Calvin, and widely held as a public view, tht people with disabilities were posessed by the devil!
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In 1773 the first hospital for people with mental disabilities was created in Virginia. See link for more details! http://www.esh.dbhds.virginia.gov/
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During the 1802-187 time period, there occurred a rise of asylums to establish better treatment for the mentally ill. Some of these are briedly dotted throughout the timeline.
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Thomas Gallaudet was a founding father. http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1371.htm See link for more details.
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http://www.perkins.org/ Hellen Keller attended the institute. See link for details on the institute today.
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Experimental boarding school was created. It housed undereducated and orphaned children believed to be "morons, imbeciles, and idiots."
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1857- Article written about institutions discussing people with disabilities.
The link takes you to an article I came across referring to a meeting between several different institutions in order to determine what to do with this, "unfortunate class of people with peculiar conditions." http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B06E7D9173CEE34BC4C52DFB467838C649FDE -
The first special class in the United States for students with disabilities was established in 1896 in Rhode Island.
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Dr. Alfred Binet identified the terms, "slow," and, "retarded," by the use of an intellignece test he created with others (IQ test) to identify the the abilities of children with developmental disabilities.
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Henry H. Goddard and his constituents developed definition of intelligence which can be found at the following link:
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/goddard.shtml
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By 1923, approximately 34,000 students in the United States were enrolled in special education classes.
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President John F. Kennedy spurs fthe beginning of federal government interest in the population of the developmentally delayed due to his sister, Rosemary ,having a developmental delay and living most of her life in an instittution in Wisconsin.
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In the 1970's, parents began advocating for public school education for children with disabilities.
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http://idea.ed.gov/In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) were signed. See links for additional information:
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In 2001, there was the Reauthorization of Elementary and Secondaty Education Act was signed under the initiative of No Child Left Behind. See link:
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/esea/reauthorization.html
