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Connecticut Asylum
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford, Connecticut. -
institution for the blind
Perkins institution opens for the Blind by Samuel Gridley Howe -
Code for the visually impaired
Braille code was created -
youth get help
Samuel Howe established a school for struggling youth that were labeled feebleminded. -
American Printing
American printing house opens for the blind. -
Deaf and Mute College
National Deaf and Mute college is established -
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell introduced the term special education for the first time. Teachers are trained to teach students that are visually impaired. -
college level training
teachers at the collage level get training for students with intellectual disabilities begins. -
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
the beginning of the modern IQ testing test is published. -
segregated classes
Children in special education were segregated out of normal education due to emotional disturbance. -
Retarded
the term mentally retarted gains popularity but the term gifted is used in formal literature. -
exceptional children
the council for exceptional children was founded -
Autism
Leo Kanner publishes the characteristics of children with autism -
Asperger syndrome
Dr. Hans Asperger identifies in children what would later be called Asperger syndrome. -
Willowbrooke State school
Willowbrooke open as a school for children with disabilities but was closed after its horrible conditions. -
Brown Vs Board
The supreme court rules that sperate is not equal. -
Samuel A. Kirk
kirk used the term Learning disabilities for the first time. -
Christmas in Purgatory
Blatt and Kaplan publish a photographic report of life in institutions causing reforms in the laws protecting those with learning disabilities/ intellectual disabilities. -
title VI
congress supplies funding to special education by adding to the Elementary and secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). -
EAHCA
P.L. 94-142, amendments to the 1974 Education for All handicapped Children Act (EAHCA), was put into place. -
Disabilities Act
EAHCA was amended and renamed the individuals with Disabilities Education Act. -
IDEA
IDEA is amended, adding provisions related to transition services, participation by general education teachers, and discipline. -
No Child Left Behind
NCLB act increases accountability for teachers and makes sure teachers are highly qualified. -
reauthorization of IDEA
raised standards for quality instruction for disabled students, included more parent involvement, and better defined term for highly qualified teachers -
Rosa's Law
Obama signs in a law that changes formal term from mental retardation to intellectual disability.
