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John Adams signed the first federal law concerning the care of persons with disabilities
It was an act relieving disabled seamen -
Phillipe Pinel writes a treatise on Insanity
4 medical classifications:
a) Melancholy
b) dementia
c) Mania with delusion
d) Mania without delusion
- mental and emotional disabilities are recognized -
Thomas H Gallaudet starts the first school for the deaf in Conneticut
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The first public special education class was started in Rhode Island
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WW1 veterans with disabilities receive funding and federal money for rehabilitation
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Jacobus TenBroek and Dr. N Perry form the California Council of the Blind
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Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act establishing assistance for adults with disabilities
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Kennedy's sister Rose is mentally retarded
Eunice writes an article describing Rose's disabilities
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Eunice Kennedy establishes the Special Olympics in Chicago for people with disabilities
Today public schools have Special Olympics clubs as long as teachers are willing to run them
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Famous court case that rules children with disabilities may not be denied admission into schools, and that there needs to exist a periodic academic review
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This Act introduces Section 504 which establishes that it is illegal to discriminate anyone solely on the basis of their disability
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EHA introduced Public Law 94-142 which allows federal funding for disabilities
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EHA gets reauthorized in 1990 as IDEA introducing AT services, transition services, and IEP with parent collaboration, and then again in 1997
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Bush signs NCLB into action which holds schools and teachers accountable for student with disability success, and introduces benchmark goals
