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Systematic educative procedures were created for the hardest to teach children.
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First American residential school for students who were deaf
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Howe was the first residential school for students who were blind opened.
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Development of special education as a profession
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Brown vs. Board of Education require schools to become racially integrated.
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President John F. Kennedy established the Division of Handicapped Children and Youth in the Office of Education
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Students with mild disabilities were mainstreamed with students without disabilities.
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Section 504 is civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. This law applies to public elementary and secondary schools, among other entities.
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This act specified that all children, regardless of disabilities, were entitled to a free, appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment
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The inclusion movement promotes inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
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A movement during the 1980s to try and correct the limitations of IDEA by eliminating separate special education programs and creating one system of general education in which students with disabilities were to be supported within general education classrooms.
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Education of Handicapped Children Act was renamed which is now known as IDEA.
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Ensures the right to nondiscriminatory treatment in other aspects of life; a civil rights law
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No Child Left Behind Act is a general education law establishing that children have the right to highly qualified content teachers as well as equal accountability and standards. This law let to high expectations for special education and inclusion in standardized assessment for most kids with special needs
