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Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Perkins institution opens for the Blind by Samuel Gridley Howe
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Braille code was created
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Samuel Howe established a school for struggling youth that were labeled feebleminded.
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American printing house opens for the blind.
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National Deaf and Mute college is established
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Bell introduced the term special education for the first time. Teachers are trained to teach students that are visually impaired.
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teachers at the collage level get training for students with intellectual disabilities begins.
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the beginning of the modern IQ testing test is published.
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Children in special education were segregated out of normal education due to emotional disturbance.
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the term mentally retarted gains popularity but the term gifted is used in formal literature.
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the council for exceptional children was founded
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Leo Kanner publishes the characteristics of children with autism
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Dr. Hans Asperger identifies in children what would later be called Asperger syndrome.
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Willowbrooke open as a school for children with disabilities but was closed after its horrible conditions.
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The supreme court rules that sperate is not equal.
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kirk used the term Learning disabilities for the first time.
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Blatt and Kaplan publish a photographic report of life in institutions causing reforms in the laws protecting those with learning disabilities/ intellectual disabilities.
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congress supplies funding to special education by adding to the Elementary and secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA).
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P.L. 94-142, amendments to the 1974 Education for All handicapped Children Act (EAHCA), was put into place.
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EAHCA was amended and renamed the individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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IDEA is amended, adding provisions related to transition services, participation by general education teachers, and discipline.
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NCLB act increases accountability for teachers and makes sure teachers are highly qualified.
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raised standards for quality instruction for disabled students, included more parent involvement, and better defined term for highly qualified teachers
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Obama signs in a law that changes formal term from mental retardation to intellectual disability.
