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Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons opens in Hartford, Connecticut. -
Perkins Institution for the Blind opened by Samuel Gridley Howe. -
Braile code is first published. -
American Printing House for the Blind is established. -
National Deaf Mute College is established, later to be renamed Gallaudet University. -
Formal training for teachers of blind persons begins at Columbia University; Alexander Graham Bell introduces the term special education. -
College-level training for teachers of students with intellectual disabilities begins. -
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon publish their intelligence test, the basis for the modern IQ testing. -
Segregated classes in public schools in established as viable alternatives in instructing children with disablities; the term emotional disturbance comes to use. -
The term mentally retarded is introduced; the term gifted appears in the professional literature.