Inclusion Timeline

By cgoodwill
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    Systematic Educative procedures for the hardest to teach students

    Itard and Seguin

  • 1st residential school for American students who are deaf

    Gallaudet

  • 1st Residential School for Students who are blind

    Howe
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    Normalization and Deinstitutionalization

    Removing barriers for participation in society
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    Inclusion

    Integration of students with disabilities into general education classes.
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    Special Olympics and other orgs.

    Advocacy for caring and fair treatment
  • Council for Exceptional Children founded

    Council for Exceptional Children founded

    Special Education as a profession developed

  • Parent groups organized

    support, information, and structure for obtaining resources

  • Education for all Handicapped Children Act

    Ensures that all children have access to free, appropriate, public education.

  • IDEA

    1990 amendment to FAPE, Individuals with disabilities act
  • ADA

    ADA

    Americans with Disabilities Act. Nondiscriminatory treatment in other aspects of life, civil rights law.

  • No child Left behind

    Standards based reform.

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act

    Amendment to FAPE