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1817
Hartford CT is becomes home to the first Special Education School : American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb currently known as the American School of the Deaf -
1840
Rhode Island passes a law mandating that the government must provide and all children must recieve an education. -
1870
School for The Deaf and the School for the Blind are established to provide hearing and vision impaired students with a suitable education. Every disabled child is entitled to an appropriate education that "will meet each child's unique needs and prepare each child for further education, employment, and independent living." (20 U.S. Code 1400(d)(1)(A) -
1886
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Dissabilities is formed -
1918
All states have been led by Rhode Island as it was the first to establish the compulsory education law. -
1939
Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals of Ohio rules that complusory education give the state department authority to exclude certain students. -
1943
Autism is introducedby Dr. Leo Kanner at John Hopkins -
1954
Brown v. Board of Education rules that "separate but equal" has no place in education. -
1960
States begin establishing Special Education programs -
1967
Hobson V Hansen
Students were placed into "special tracks" due to race and IQ testing.
The court ruled against the "special tracks" according to intelligence and test scores. At the time, it was the criteria to decide whether a student would be in a general education class or a special education one. -
1970
Diana v. California State Board of Education
Nine Mexican- American students were given an IQ test in English, the only criteria which led the 9 to be placed in a classroom for students with mild cognitive dissabilities -
1971
P.A.R.C. V Pennsylvania
PARC wins against state and FAPE for every child with mental retardation from ages 6-21 is established in Pennsylvania
PARC-Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children
FAPE-Free and Appropriate Education -
1972
Mills v District of Columbia Board of Education
Mills files a class action suit on behalf of 18,000 disabled children stating that the children were being denied an education without due proceess. -
1973
Rehabiliatation Act prohibits the exclusion of people based on disrsabilities and programs conducted and employed by Federal Govnment. -
1975
Specific learning dissabilities added as category on the Education for All Handicap Children Act of 1975 -
1979
Larry P. v Riles -California Court rules that IQ tests could not be used as the sole basis for placing children in Special Education classes. -
1982
Board of Education of the Henrick Hudson School System v Rowley
As long as services are appropriate for the student and are provided to meet the student's needs, the schools are not required to maximize a student's potential by providing superior services. -
1984
Irving Independant School District Court rules that catherization is a need that could be fulfilled by someone other than a physician and must be done for children to attend school. This decision was made after parents of a child with spina-bifida wanted to add catherizatiin to her individualized educational plan (IEP). -
1988
Honig v Doe
School administrators wanted to expell emotionally distrubed students from their district indifinitely do to repeated misbehavior.
Court ruled that children with dissabilities could not be excluded from school for any misbehavior related to the dissability, although educational services can cease if the misbehavior is not related to the dissability -
1989
Danny R.R. v State Board of Education Daniel's parents stated that the school districts failed to place him a class of non-handicapped students was a violation of the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) Courts ruled that the Board of Education was providing a free and appropriate education for Daniel with non-handicapped students to the maximum extent and no violation of the EHA was taking place. -
2001
No Child Left Behind is established