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MBriggs Special Education Timeline

By MarikaB
  • Itard & Seguin

    developed systematic procedures for the "hardest to teach children"
  • Itard & Seguin

    Developed "systematic educative procedures for the hardest to teach children"
  • Gallaudet

    1st American Residential School for students who were deaf
  • Gallaudet

    1st American Residential School for students who are deaf
  • Howe

    1st Residential School for Students who were blind
  • Howe

    1st Residential School for students who are blind
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    Normalization & Deinstitutionalization

    "Breaking down barriers to participate in society"
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    Inclusion

    "Intergration of students into general education classrooms."
  • Founding of Council for Exception Children

    DEvelopment of Special Education as a profession
  • Organization of Parent Groups

    "Provide support, information, and structure for obtaining resources"
  • IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act)

    Amendment to Education for Handicapped Children Act of 1975 to "ensure that all children and youths with disabilities have a right to free, appropriate, public education"
  • ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)

    "Ensures the right to nondiscriminatory treatment in other aspects of life; a civil rights law"
  • NCLB (No Child Left Behind)

    “Standards-based” reform, consequences to special education"