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Jean Marc-Gaspard Itard
Father of Special Education works with "wild child" Victor using explicit teaching methods that are still used today. -
Special Education comes to America
Edouard Seguin brings Dr. Itard's teachings to America in an effort to educate those with disabilities. -
Brown v. Board of Education
the basis for future rulings that children with disabilities cannot be excluded from school. -
JFK Visits Willowbrook
Senator at the time, JFK visited Willowbrook and ended up calling it a "snake pit." -
PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In the state of Pennsylvania no child with intellectual disabilities can be denied a public education. -
Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia
All students with disabilities have a right to a free public education. -
The Last Great Disgrace
Conditions for those at the Willowbrook institution for children and adults with disabilities are exposed by Geraldo Rivera. -
Section 504
Required accommodations in schools and society for those with disabilities. -
Individuals with Disabilities Eduaction Act (IDEA)
Prior to this law, students with disabilities had been denied access to public education. -
PL 94-142
Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA), guaranteed a FAPE in the LRE. -
Anouncemnet of Closure of Willowbrook
The state of New York announced plans to close Willowbrook, which had been renamed the Staten Island Developmental Center in 1974. -
Willowbrook Closure Update
The number of residents housed at Willowbrook had dwindled to 250. -
PL 99-457
EHA Reauthorized, added infant and toddlers and provided an IFSP -
Willowbrook Closes
The last children left the grounds. -
PL 101-476
Changing of EHA to the name of IDEA. Added individualized transition plans, added autism and traumatic brain injury as categories. -
PL 101-336
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), barred discrimination in employement, transportation, public accomadations, and telecomunications. -
IDEA Reauthorized
required all students with disabilities have access to the general education curicculum and its accountability systems. -
No Child Left Behind Act
ESEA or NCLB required that all schoolchildren participate in state and district testing. -
Passage of IDEA
Emphasized that teachers should apply evidence-based interventions. -
Assistive Technology Act [Reauthorized]
Provided support for school-to-work transition projects. Continued a national website on AT. Assisted states in creating and supporting device loan programs, financial loans to individuals to purchase AT devices, and equipment demonstartions. -
Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (AdAAA) [Reauthorized]
Restored workplace protection diminshed by previous court decisions. -
Rosa's Law
Changed the terms mental "retardation" to intellectual disabilities and intellectually disabled in federal laws. -
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Prohibited exclusion for preexisting conditions; eliminated caps on benefits and; prohinbited descrimination based on disability and health status. -
IDEA: Part C, Early Intervention Program
Allocated funding to states to serve infants and toddlers through age 2 with developmental delays or who have physical or mental conditions that result in developmental delays, and ensured early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities birth through age 2. -
Progress
61.8% of all students with disabilities received at least 80% of their education at local public schools in general education classrooms. -
Every School Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Studentd with disabilities recieve a regular high school diploma if they recieved a standards-based curricular education.