Intro To Exceptionalities Timeline

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  • 1817

    1817
    Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons opens in Hartford, Connecticut.

  • 1832

    1832
    Perkins Institution for the Blind opened by Samuel Gridley Howe.

  • 1834

    1834
    Braile code is first published.

  • 1858

    1858
    American Printing House for the Blind is established.

  • 1864

    1864
    National Deaf Mute College is established, later to be renamed Gallaudet University.

  • 1884

    1884
    Formal training for teachers of blind persons begins at Columbia University; Alexander Graham Bell introduces the term special education.

  • 1898

    1898
    College-level training for teachers of students with intellectual disabilities begins.

  • 1905

    1905
    Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon publish their intelligence test, the basis for the modern IQ testing.

  • 1910

    1910
    Segregated classes in public schools in established as viable alternatives in instructing children with disablities; the term emotional disturbance comes to use.

  • 1920

    1920
    The term mentally retarded is introduced; the term gifted appears in the professional literature.