the History of Special Education in America

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  • Jean Marc -Gaspard physician tames wild boy of Aveyron

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    special education

  • Dorothea Dix increase funds for specialized instruction

  • Edouard O. Seguin physician social change for improvement of treatment of perosns with disabilities

  • First Special Ed schoolin US

  • Rhode Island passes law mandate compulsory edu for children

  • G. Stanley Hall psychology in public schools

  • Anne Sullivan Macy teacher of Hellen Keller

  • American Association of Instructors of the Blind and American Association on Merntal Defiency formed

  • Special classes for students juded "unsuitable"

  • Council for Exceptional Children

  • Child Guidance cli nics and sounselin services

  • Bradley Home the first psychiatric home for children in US

  • Special Education part of public education

  • National Association for Retarded Citizens

  • The first instituet for fresarch on execptional children opens at the University of Illinois

  • Continum of services offered outline initiated

  • Association for Children withLearning Disabilities

  • Special education services offered in a varity of placements, not required for all students

  • Eduaction for All Handicapped Children Act

  • Kennedy and Johnson EAHCA initiated

  • The Education for All Handicapped children P.L.94-142 (IDEA)

  • EAHCA implementd fully

  • EAHCA amened Handicapped Children's Protetion act

  • IDEA reauthorized

  • No Child left behind enacted

  • IDEA reauthorized