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Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb opens in Hartford
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Samual Gridley Howe openes Perkins Institution for the Blind
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First public school class for children with hearing impairments opens in Boston
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The first public school special class was established in Cleveland, Ohio. It was closed shortly after, and in 1896 another one reamerged in several states
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Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon publish their intelligence test, basis for the modern IQ testing
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The Term mentally retarded and gifted are both beginning to appear in professional literature
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Leo Kanner identifies the characteristics of children with autism!
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Allowed parents to challenge the schools about their children not receiving adequate education, along with challenging segregation in the school system.
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Association for Children with Learning Disabilites (LDAA) is organized!
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Students with mild disabilities were allowed to enter the classrooms with students without disabilities.
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Amendments to the 1974 Education for All Handicapted Children Act is enacted
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Reauthorization of IDEA services were extended to infants, tots, and 3 year old preschool aged kiddos.
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President Reagan signed the Handicapped Children’s Protection Act, a law that gave parents of children with disabilities more say in the development of their child’s Individual Education Plan, or IEP.
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Americans with Disabilities Act is enacted; EAHCA is amended and renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
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Added provisions related to transition services, participation by general education teachers, and discipline
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In 2001-2002 they passed No Child Left Behind Act holding schools accountable for their children's outcomes
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A reauthorization of IDEA happened!
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President Obama passes law that changed federal language use from mental retardation to intellectual disability
