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The first school for disabled children, in America, is founded in Hartford, Connecticut. -
Louis Braille invents the raised dot system now known as "braille". -
First institution of its kind, for people with mental disabilities, founded in Boston, Massachusetts. -
The war resulted in 30,000 amputations in the Union Army and began issues related to disability in the U.S.
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Alexander Bell invents the telephone for the deaf, helping to make speech more visible. -
Students with specials needs were expelled from school due to their facial abnormalities and drooling, despite having perfect mental capacities. -
The Council for Exceptional Children was created, as the first advocacy group for children with disabilities. -
President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act that established a permanent program for assisting adults with disabilities. -
Dr. Leo Kanner, of John Hopkins University, introduced the classification of Autism. -
The Barrier Free Standards was a movement that began to help push a barrier free building and access to the buildings. -
Ed Roberts, was rejected from the University of California because he had polio. He fought to have this decision overturned. -
This center was established at UC Berkley by Ed Roberts, in an effort to support the needs of individuals with disabilities, to help them live independently and away from nursing homes or institutions. -
This act ensured that students with disabilities are educated in public schools, and that special education and supplemental services were provided for free. -
Signed by President George W. Bush, this act promises people with special needs will have the same rights as everybody else, both inside and outside of school and work. -
In 1999, the year I was born and my mother immigrated to the U.S., my uncle graduated from high school along with a student that had down syndrome. This was a shocking discovery to my mother, seeing as in Mexico students with special needs are not allowed to graduate and most don't even attend school. -
This bill required that students attending K-12 public school systems are to be taught the history of disability right movement. -
My freshman year of high school I attended a public school, after attending a private school my whole life, it was not until then that I remember attending a class with special needs students. Although it is highly possible I had attended other classes with special needs students and didn't know it. -
To complete the context of learning study, I had to contact many special education teachers to seek further information on my students' IEP's and their special accommodation's. -
For this class I will have to attend an IEP meeting which I am very much looking forward to, to learn more about the process. -
This is the first class I am taking on special education, and I am looking forward to taking more!