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Opened in Hartford, CT
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Opened Perkins Institution for the Blind
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Later renamed Gallaudet Univ
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Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
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The term "gifted" appeared in professional Literature
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Dr. Hans Asperger
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"Separate" is not "equal"
Allowed for parents of students with disabilities to contend their students were not receiving adequate education -
Until the 1960's students with disabilities were segregated from students without disabilities
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Introduced the term "Learning Disabilities"
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students with mild disabilities were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. Students were only “visiting” the general education class and not really being instructed
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Exclusionary practices upheld in courts
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Free Appropriate
Public Education
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Signed by President Obama changing federal language usage from mental retardation to intellectual disability