History of Inclusion

By jdregne

  • Begining of Special Education

    Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, after atempting to teach "Victor the Wild Boy of Averyon to communicate, he is the first physcian to suggest that educational intervention can improve the lives of students with diabilities.

  • Edouard Seguin publishes "The Moral Treatment, Hygiene, and Education of Idiots and Other Backwards Children"

    Seguin is credited with helping bring the special education movement to the United States. His book expressed his belief that sensorimotor exercises could help stimulate learning in chidren with disabilities.

  • Congress passes legislation to promote educational programs for students who are blind

    Public Law 45-186 is passes by Congress to create educational programs for the blind. This act is the firt federally supported program which made Braille book availible to students and granted federal money to the American Printing House for the Blind.

  • The Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children is established

    Located in Boston it is the first US educational institution to serve children with disabilities.

  • First tranining school for SPED teachers opens in New Jersery

    It is found that teachers need special training to best serve students with disabilities. The teacher training school is located in New Jersey. It is named the New Jersey Training School for Feebleminded Boys and Girls. The tuition for th 6 week course is $25.

  • Maria Montessorri opens first school

    Maria opens her first "children's house" in Rome, Italy. M. Montessorri is credited with creating a system of education for children ages 3-6 based on the freedom of movement, student choice, and the use of specialy designed activities and equipment. Her interventions have been shown to improve educational needs for both disabled and nondisabled students.

  • State ex rel. Beattie vs. Board of Education

    The state supreme court justifies EXCLUDING a boy with cerebral palsy because he "produces depressing and nauseating effect upon the teachers and school children."

  • The Citizens Vocational Rehabilitation Act

    This act is passed to expand vocational services to include civilians with physical disabilities. (The Soldiers' Rehabilitation Act - 1918 only included military personal). This act only covered physical disabilities not mental illness, retardation, and blindness until 1943.

  • Dyslexia is defined

    A neurologist from Iowa named Samuel Orton publishes an article describing 15 children who share unusual quirky characteristics. These students confuse the letter b with d and p with q, some could read more easily when books were held up to the mirror and wrote better using "mirror-writing".

  • "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" is published

    In his paper, Leo Kanner uses the term "autistic" to describe eleve children with social issues. He describes autism as exxtreme aloneness, an exteme attachement to objects, and a desire for sameness and routines.

  • The American Association for Gifted Children (AAGC) is founded.

    Located in New York and founded by Ruth Strang and Pauline Williamson. It is the first non-profit organization devoted to educational sucess for gifted, talented and creative children

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Cheif Justice Earl Warren ruled that "seperate is not equal". This case increased studies of inclusive practices for students with disabilites in the future decades.

  • Conflict in the Classroom is published

    A popular textbook written by Nicholas Long, William Morse, and Ruth Newman on how teachers can education children with behavioral disorders. In the textbook the authors describe that children with behvioral disorders become trapped in counterproductive behaviors and strategies to change these behaviors.

  • PL 91-230, the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendent passes

    According to PL 91-230 schools are required to provide a free and appropriate education for both disabled and gifted students. This law allowed for funds to be spent on GT programs. This law is later amended in 1997 (IDEA).

  • The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA)

    The laws states:
    1. A free and apporiate education for all children with disabiliites ages 6-21.
    2. Special education due process rights for all children and familes.
    3. Education in the least restrictive enviornment.