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The first residential school in the U.S.. At the time, the term dumb referred to people who were unable to speak. This school took approximately three years to open. After identifying 84 deaf people in the state, it was enough to warrant the school.Proposed by a surgeon names Mason Cogswell whose daughter was deaf after contracting meningitis. His partner was Sylvester Gilbert who had five deaf children. They came together and recruited other parents in order to accomplish their goal.
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Twenty-year-old Louis Braille first published his idea of using dots as the basis of a tactile alphabet for the blind in 1829. Braille was blind since the age of three in a childhood accident. In 1824 he was fifteen years old and developed a code for the French alphabet. In 1829, his system was published.
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Council for Exceptional Children works to inform parents, teachers, and administration about the education of individuals with disabilities. It is dedicated to helping improve the education for all disabled people by advocating policies, educating the public, and setting professional standards.
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Association for Retarded Children (ARC) is founded (known today as the Association for Retarded Citizens, or simply the Arc). The Arc becomes the first organization to put money into research on intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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This law prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities. 504 ensures that students with disabilities have equal access and opportunities at typically developing students. It covers the entire lifespan including employment, public access and transportation. This act provides a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment. Procedural safeguards to protect the right of students with disabilities and freedom from discrimination at private schools.
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A law directed at students with physical and mental abilities. The law stated that schools must provide children with specials needs the same opportunities for education as other children. The goal was to make special education services available to children who required them. This law provided federal resources to public schools for the education of students with a disability. This law is known as the mainstreaming law that required a free and appropriate public education.
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Ensures all students with a disability are given the right to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) with a goal of providing them that education in the least restrictive environment (LRE). This law requires that state to educate students and prepare them for transition to employment. Requires schools conduct an appropriate evaluation implemented by trained educators who then to write an individual education program.
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ADA becomes a law & prohibits the discrimination on the basis of any individual with a disability. The ADA gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities. This law is divided into 5 titles including equal employment, State and local government, Public accommodations, Telecommunications, and miscellaneous provisions.
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Amendments to include mediation to resolve differences between parents, teachers, and evaluators.General education teachers were now required to be part of IEP teams to discuss goals, students with disabilities to continue to receive services even if they were expelled from the school, students with IEPs were to take any standardized and state tests. The amendments authorized additional grants for technology, disabled infants and toddlers, parent training, and professional development.
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The establishment of assistive technology (AT) demonstration centers, information centers, equipment loan facilities, referral services, and other consumer-oriented programs;Federal/state programs to provide low interest loans and other alternative financing options to help people with disabilities purchase needed assistive technology.
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Elementary and secondary education act called for schools to be accountable for the academic performance of all students. The act requires schools in all states to develop a routine assessment of the students’ academic skills. No child left behind provides incentives for schools to demonstrate progress in students with disabilities. It provides opportunities for students to seek alternate options if schools are not meeting their social, emotional, or academic needs.
