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Most people with disabilities lived in the streets and were beggars. Having a disability was a death sentence in some instances.
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Valentin Hauy established the first institution for blind children to help make life more tolerable.
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Developmentally disabled children and adults were treated like they didn't matter. They were put into institutions for the rest of their lives.
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The first permanent deaf school in America which marked the beginning of efforts in America to educate people with disabilities.
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Louis Braille invents raised point alphabet.
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People with disabilities were segregated from everyone else.
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Eugenics were for "confirmed idiots, imbeciles, and rapists." People with disabilities were sterilized so they wouldn't be able to have children.
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This pamphlet set the stage for rights of people with disabilities.
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Samuel Orton begins the study of dyslexia and hypothesized that it could be neurological verses visual.
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Dr. Leo Kanner described autism for the first time after he studied children who had withdrawn from human contact.
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Requires that all buildings designed, constructed, altered, or leased with federal funds to be made accessible.
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Section 504 was passed by congress
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act guarantees free and appropriate education for all disabled children.
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Americans with Disabilities Act recognizes and protects the civil rights of people with disabilities.
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