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The first school for the deaf opened on April 15th 1817
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The first school for blind children opens up.
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The first college for students with disabilities was opened.
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This set the precedence of separate but equal.
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Some students were expelled for drooling and for having face abnormalities.
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The first advocacy group for kids with disabilities was formed.
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The first psychiatric hospital for kids in the U.S.A. was established in East Province Rhode Island.
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Dr. Leo Lanner of John Hopkins outlined the first classification of Autism
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(NARC) 23 advocacy groups came together to form NARC.
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Made the decision that separate cannot be equal.
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This was opened in Berkley CA by a man named Ed Roberts.
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Children with disabilities were placed in public schools.
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This gave people with disabilities equal rights everywhere including at school and work, and it called for no more discrimination against people with disabilities.
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There are 6 pillars: FAPE, LRE, IEP, evaluation, parent/student participation, and all procedural safeguards for participants.
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All students were required to be tested for reading and math from grades 3-8.
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I was about 5 years old when I moved and my next door neighbor was an older boy with Autism. I went to his house or he would come over to mine and we played together often.
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I remember one of our close family friends had a son who was diagnosed with ADHD.
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Every day at lunch I would see a boy with special needs named Patrick. He always said happy Monday (or whatever day it was), and he made me smile every day.
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My family became good friends with a family who has a young boy with ADHD and a young girl with Aspergers.
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I took a class last year at Sonoma State, in which I learned so much about students with disabilities and how to best support them.
