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Ancient Rome - 4th Century BC
The Romans used to place disabled children in the Tiber River -
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greeks used to place disabled children in clay vessels and abandon them -
Nov 3, 1529
Ponce de leon
Spanish monk teaches deaf children to speak and read -
John Locke - sensationalism
John Locke throws around the idea that children are born tabula rosa - a blank tablet rather with innate characteristics imprinted by God, nature or the devil -
Jean Marc Itard
Tries to teach Victor the wild boy of Aveyron -
Louis Braille
Creates an alphabet for the blind adapted from a cipher system invented Napolean Bonapart -
School For the Blind opened in Toronto
First school for the blind opened in Toronto and one year later in Halifax -
First Canadian Residential Institution
The beginning of Special Education - opening of Residential school for the developmentally disabled in Orillia -
Chicago World Fair
Despite the movement towards understanding children with execeptionalities, they were still used in carnival shows well into the 20th century. -
Frederick Treves
Rescused John Merrick - The Elephant Man -
The Hope Commission
Recommendation of expansion of special education programs - paving the way for Bill 82 -
Establishment of National Institute on Mental Retardation
Think of the use of the word - "retardation" - 1972 -
The Watershed moment - 1980
Bill 82 is passed in the Ontario Legislature
