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The American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb opened in Hartford, Connecticut. When it first opened it only had seven pupils. It was opened by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (a theology graduate) and Alice Cogswell, his deaf neighbor. Later the name was changed to the American School for the Deaf. -
Rhode Island passed a compulsory education law that made compulsory education mandatory for all children. This means that all children in the state of Rhode Island need to receive an education and that the government needs to provide that education. This law also stated that children between the ages to six and 16 need to attend school. -
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization. This organization is meant to improve children with disabilities and/or gifts and talents success in life. It was founded by 12 educators that attended a summer session at the Teachers College, Columbia University. -
The ARC of the United States used to be known as the National Association for Retarded Citizens. This organization was founded to aid people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It was founded by parents of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This nonprofit organization has subsidiaries all over the United States. For example, The Arc of Louisiana, and The Arc of New York. -
The Association for Children with Learning Disabilities (ACLD) is now known as the Learning Disabilities Association of America or the LDA. Like The Arc, this was started by parents of children with disabilities. A year before the ACLD was founded, on April 6, 1963, these parents convened a conference called the “Exploration into the Problems of the Perceptually Handicapped Child”. This conference started a movement that is now the LDA which has just celebrated its 60th anniversary. -
President Lyndon Baines Johnson passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965. This act believed in “full educational opportunity” and that should be “our first national goal”. The ESEA was replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) which become fully operational during the 2017-18 school year. Unlike the ESEA the ESSA requires that the state gets input from the parents and families of disabled children in any plans they create. -
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The act once known as the Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act now it’s the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). President Clinton reauthorized IDEA and added some key amendments to it. These key amendments emphasized that all students must have access to the same curriculum.
