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The Romans used to place disabled children in the Tiber River
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Ancient Greeks used to place disabled children in clay vessels and abandon them
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Spanish monk teaches deaf children to speak and read
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John Locke throws around the idea that children are born tabula rosa - a blank tablet rather with innate characteristics imprinted by God, nature or the devil
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Tries to teach Victor the wild boy of Aveyron
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Creates an alphabet for the blind adapted from a cipher system invented Napolean Bonapart
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First school for the blind opened in Toronto and one year later in Halifax
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The beginning of Special Education - opening of Residential school for the developmentally disabled in Orillia
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Despite the movement towards understanding children with execeptionalities, they were still used in carnival shows well into the 20th century.
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Rescused John Merrick - The Elephant Man
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Recommendation of expansion of special education programs - paving the way for Bill 82
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Think of the use of the word - "retardation" - 1972
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Bill 82 is passed in the Ontario Legislature
