Historical Timeline of Special Education

By kyerha

  • Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard

    French physician who studied the deaf and is considered one of the founders of special education

  • Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

    Starts first American residential school

  • Perkins School for the Blind

    Samuel Gridley Howe created a school for the blind. Doctors began to study of deafness and blindness

  • Council of Exceptional Children

  • California and Illinois begin special needs program

  • 504 Rehabilitation Act of 1973

    504 made children who did not qualify for special education services but made them eligible under 504

  • IDEA

    Extended civil rights of people with exceptionalities