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The first hospital was opened for people with mental disabilities.
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A place was designed to assist Civil War veterans after they returned home.
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The first special education classes began in the late 1800's and early 1900s. Classes and school were developed for children with severe disabilities.
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The goverment started to put the "idiots" into homes to lessen the reproduction rate.
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IQ tests were started my the Frenchman, Alfred Binet. He was commissioned by the goverment to create a test to differentiate between normally intellectual children and inferior children.
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By 1923, over 34,000 special education students were enrolled in school.
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The institutions were labeled as having horrible living conditions.
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Parents of students with disabilites starting advocating for their children to get them into public schooling.
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The development of 504's was implemented.
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The American Disabilities Act was passed.
