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Jan 1, 1400
Belief that people with disabilities were possessed by devil (Martin Luther, John Calvin1400-1500)
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Poor Laws- taxes to pay for care
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First hospital for people with mental disabilities-Virginia
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Wild Boy of Aveyron
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Period: to
1800’s-Perkins Institute for the Blind-Mass
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Rise of Asylums-Dorothea Dix (1802-87)-30+ asylums established-better treatment of mentally ill
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Thomas Gallaudet-American Asylum for the Deaf
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Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth-experimental boarding school
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Rhode Island First special class in U.S.
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H.H. Goddard, director Vineland Training School for Feebleminded Girls and Boys-Movement to lock up “idiots” and “imbeciles” therefore eliminating “defectives” from reproducing-1900's
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-Dr. Alfred Binet-identify “slow” or “retarded” children-IQ test
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Franklin D. Rooservelt-32nd President-physical disability "Polio".
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“Principal of normalization”
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Parents advocating for public school education for children with disabilities
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First Center for Independent Living (CIF)
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Section 504 of Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973
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President Nixon-executive order returning one-third of the 200,000 people with disabilities in institutions to community residential placements
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Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142)1986-Amended to include infants and toddlers
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
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Reauthorization of Elementary and Secondary Education Act-No Child Left Behind (NCLB)