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Dr. Alfred Binet idenditifed"Slow" or "retarded" children with the use of an IQ Test.
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Passage of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act assisted soldiers with dissabilities after WWI.
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Supreme Court ruling madated the sterilization of people with disabilities.
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In January of 1938 President Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the March of Dimes organization.
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President Kennedy was very influential and initiates The Principal of Normalization in Human Services
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Nixon's executive order removes hundreds of thousands of people with diabilities from institutions and places them in community residences.
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This legislation was enacted to raise student achievement and close achievement gaps. It is founded on the principle that all children can learn.
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has been called "the most important piece of civil rights legislation for childrenwith disabilities" that our country has ever enacted. (see link attached)
