History of SPED

  • Excluding students with disabilities from public school education; 1800's

  • American Asulym for the Education od the Deaf and Dumb

  • Advocate groups were created by parents of kids who were marginalized

  • Belief that children with disabilities should be instutionalized

  • Association for Retarded Children

  • Brown V. Board

  • President’s Panel on Mental Retardation

  • Handicapped Children’s Early Education Assistance Act

  • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

  • The Education for All Handicapped Children Act

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

  • The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

  • No Child Left Behind Act

  • Change from "mental retardation" to the phrase "intellectual disability"; Rosa's Law