History of Special Education

By jocflood31

  • First hospital for people with mental disabilities- Virginia

  • Perkins Institute for the Blind- Mass.

  • Thomas Gallaudet- American Asylum for the Deaf

  • Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C.

  • Rhode Island first special class in U.S.

  • Public Institutions Housed Only 4% of People With Developmental Disabilities

  • Approx. 34,000 students with disabilities enrolled in special ed. classes

  • Horrific conditions in most public institutions

  • Education of all Handicapped Children Act PL 94-142

  • Individuals With Disabilities Act IDEA

  • Americans With Disabilities Act (IDEA)

  • Reauthorization of Elementar and Secondary Act NCLB