Special ed

History Of Special Education

By kaegli

  • First Hospital Created for People with Mental Disabilities

    First Hospital Created for People with Mental Disabilities
    The first hospital for the mentally ill in the United States was opened in 1773 in Williamsburg, VA.

  • Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded

    Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded
    Hervey Wilbur helped to create the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded. This school was the first of its kind.

  • American Association of Mental Retardation

    American Association of Mental Retardation
    Edouard Seguin became the first president of the Association of Medical Officers of the Feeble-Minded. This then became known as the American Association of Mental Retardation.

  • The Binet-Simon Scale

    The Binet-Simon Scale
    Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon worked together and developed a measurement tool to indentify students with mental retardation. The scale, called the Binet-Simon Scale, is used to measure intelligence.

  • "Learning Disability"

    "Learning Disability"
    Samuel A. Kirk was the first to use the phrase "learning disability" at a conference in Chicago.

  • Bureau of Education for the Handicapped

    Bureau of Education for the Handicapped
    Congress creates the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. This still did not make it mandatory to educate a student with a disability under federal or state law, however, this showed that change was coming.

  • Park v. Pennsylvania & Mills v. D.C Board of Education

    Park v. Pennsylvania & Mills v. D.C Board of Education
    These were two crucial Supreme Court Decisions. The court took the position that children with disabilities have an equal right to education. A law was not created at this time, however many disabled students began going to school that had not gone before.

  • Section 504 Created

    Section 504 Created
    Section 504 was made a law to protect qualified individuals from discrimination based on their disability.

  • PL 94-142 Is Created

    PL 94-142 mandated that all schools to educate students with disabilities. This became known as IDEA. http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/pl94-142.html

  • No Child Left Behind

    No Child Left Behind
    This law stated that all students, even students with disabilities, would be proficient in math and reading.

  • IDEA Reauthorized

    IDEA Reauthorized
    Several changes were made to the 1997 version of IDEA. More accountability and interventions for disabled students are required from the schools.