History for Special Education Timeline

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  • First Federal Law for Disability

    First Federal Law for Disability
    John Adams signed the first federal law concerning the care of persons with disabilities
    It was an act relieving disabled seamen

  • Treatise on Insanity

    Treatise on Insanity
    Phillipe Pinel writes a treatise on Insanity
    4 medical classifications:
    a) Melancholy
    b) dementia
    c) Mania with delusion
    d) Mania without delusion
    - mental and emotional disabilities are recognized

  • Deaf Education Starts

    Deaf Education Starts
    Thomas H Gallaudet starts the first school for the deaf in Conneticut

  • First Special Education Class

    First Special Education Class
    The first public special education class was started in Rhode Island

  • Funding for Rehabilitation

    Funding for Rehabilitation
    WW1 veterans with disabilities receive funding and federal money for rehabilitation

  • Council for the Blind

    Council for the Blind
    Jacobus TenBroek and Dr. N Perry form the California Council of the Blind

  • Social Security Act

    Social Security Act
    Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act establishing assistance for adults with disabilities

  • Kennedy's Part

    Kennedy's Part
    Kennedy's sister Rose is mentally retarded
    Eunice writes an article describing Rose's disabilities
    Later President Kennedy forms the presidents panel on Mental Retardation

  • Special Olympics

    Special Olympics
    Eunice Kennedy establishes the Special Olympics in Chicago for people with disabilities
    Today public schools have Special Olympics clubs as long as teachers are willing to run them
    https://www.specialolympics.org/

  • Mills vs. Board of Education

    Mills vs. Board of Education
    Famous court case that rules children with disabilities may not be denied admission into schools, and that there needs to exist a periodic academic review

  • Rehabilitation Act

    Rehabilitation Act
    This Act introduces Section 504 which establishes that it is illegal to discriminate anyone solely on the basis of their disability

  • Education of the Handicapped Acts

    Education of the Handicapped Acts
    EHA introduced Public Law 94-142 which allows federal funding for disabilities

  • IDEA

    IDEA
    EHA gets reauthorized in 1990 as IDEA introducing AT services, transition services, and IEP with parent collaboration, and then again in 1997
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XMndYNEGFA

  • No Child Left Behind

    No Child Left Behind
    Bush signs NCLB into action which holds schools and teachers accountable for student with disability success, and introduces benchmark goals