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In the first part of the 1700s, people with disabilities were given protection from the world at large.
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Procedures for teaching blind and deaf children are developed after the American and French Revolutions in the late 1700s.
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Jean-Marc Itard (1774-1838) trail-blazed for special education with patience and systematic educating. He was a doctor specializing in ear diseases, deafness, and educating the deaf.
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851) learned about educating deaf and, then, opens school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Samuel Gridley Howe opens a school to teach blind students reading, writing, math, and enrichment.
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Samuel Gridley Howe was involved in the opening of the school.
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Early 1900s, effort made to educate children with intellectual disabilities, and emotional/behavioral disorders.
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Elizabeth Farrell had already helped to develop special education as a profession when she and others formed the CEC.
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Effective national parent groups form.
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Trend for people with disabilities to live closer to home and in more home-like situations instead of in institutions has effect.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver establishes Special Olympics.
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In 1990, this becomes IDEA.
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Case decided a sign language interpreter was not necessary to achieve appropriate education for Amy Rowley.
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ADA ensures rights of individuals with disabilities.
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"Exceptional children should be placed where such instruction (intensive instruction to meet needs of exceptional learners) is most likely to be provided, even if that place is somewhere other than the general education classroom." (Exceptional Learners, p.12)
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NCLB was meant to improve education for all children including those with disabilities.
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This is the re-authorization of IDEA.