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The first special education school in the United States is established.
The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States. It was founded April 15, 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc and became a state-supported school in 1817. The school became the first recipient of state aid to education in America when the Connecticut General Assembly awarded its first annual grant to the school in 1819.
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The American Association On Intellectual and Developmental Disabilties is formed.
AAID websiteAAIDD, (formerly AAMR -- American Association on Mental Retardation) is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization of professionals and citizens concerned about intellectual and developmental disabilities. This association has been providing worldwide leadership in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. -
CEC is founded
A group of students attending the Teachers College at Columbia University organized a meeting to discuss ways to promote fellowship among educators as well as a means of exchanging ideas among workers in special education. The students invited Elizabeth Farrell, their professor, to attend this meeting at which the International Council for the Education of Exceptional Children was founded, and later became known as the CEC.
<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA4wwIyXT74' >Council for Exce -
Autism is introduced by Dr. Leo Kanner at John Hopkins.
Dr. Kanner's paper on AutismDr. Kanner’s paper on Autism</a>Leo Kanner, M.D. (1894-1981) He was born in Austria and educated in Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1924. In 1930, shortly after coming to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professors Adolf Meyer, Director of Psychiatry, and Edwards A. Park, Director of Pediatrics selected Dr. Kanner to develop our nation’s first child psychiatry service in a pediatric hospital. Dr. Kanner was the first physician in the United States to be identified as a child psychiatrist. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Ruled that “separate but equal” has no place in education. “In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right that must be available to all on equal terms.”-Chief Justice Earl Warren -
1972 Mills v Board of Education
Mills sues on behalf of 18,000 disabled children stating that disabled children were being denied public education without due process. The school district admitted that an estimated 12,340 children with disabilities would not be served during the 1971–1972 school year because of budget constraints. The U.S. District Court ruled, in a pretrial hearing, that school districts were constitutionally prohibited from deciding that they had inadequate resources to serve children with disabilities. -
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Your Rights Under Section 504 Of The Rehabilitation ActThe Rehabilitation Act requires any agency, school or institution receiving federal financial assistance to provide persons with disabilities to the greatest extent possible, an opportunity to be fully integrated into the mainstream.This Act define persons with disabilities as those who have a physical or mental impairment which limits one or more major life activities; have a record of such an impairment; or are regarded as having an impairment. -
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Definition of disability extends coverage of section 504 to employment, public and private educational institutions, transportation providers and telecommunications, regardless of presence of any federal funding. This law protects all persons with a disability from discrimination in educational setting based solely on disability. It eliminates barriers that would prevent a student from full participation in programs/services offered to the general school population. -
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
NCLB focuses on:Targets require improving the academic achievement of all public school students, including the disadvantaged, and including students with disabilities. Specific disability categories are defined in the law; covers children with educational disabilities that required special services from specially trained teachers. NCLB Covers students with educational disabilities that require special education services from ages 3-21 or until graduation. -
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
U.S. Department of Education “Building The Legacy IDEA 2004”IDEA is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities. Ensures that all children with disabilities have available to them a free/appropriate public education that emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs and prepare them.
