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Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
French physician who studied the deaf and is considered one of the founders of special education -
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Starts first American residential school -
Perkins School for the Blind
Samuel Gridley Howe created a school for the blind. Doctors began to study of deafness and blindness -
Council of Exceptional Children
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California and Illinois begin special needs program
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504 Rehabilitation Act of 1973
504 made children who did not qualify for special education services but made them eligible under 504 -
IDEA
Extended civil rights of people with exceptionalities