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American School for the Deaf
Hartford, CT- first special education school in US founded: American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (now called the American School for the Deaf). -
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Public Schools and Compulsory Education Laws
North Carolina was the first state to provide public schooling. Rhode Island was the first to put compulsory education laws into place but students with disabilities were often excluded from the laws. -
Teaching and Training of Idiotic Students
Boston, MA, Dr. Howe created school for disabled: Teaching and Training of Idiotic Students. Edward Sequin of France worked with Howe to a create a curriculum that prepared students with disabilities to learn to live with the rest of society. -
The School for the Deaf and Blind
The School for the Deaf and Blind was established to provide hearing and vision impaired students with suitable education. Due to West Virginia becoming a state in 1863, West Virginia students could no longer attend the Virginia school for the blind. West Virginia opened the school for the blind AND the deaf. http://www.historichampshire.org/schools/d-b-school.htm -
AAIDD
The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities formed. The association is still in existence today and is used to help spread information and resources to stakeholders of people with disabilities and to people with disabilities. Link text -
Beattie V Board of Education
Beattie V Board of Education- Student expelled because drooling, due to disability, nauseated teachers, and other students. The case started the precedent that students are not to be discriminated against because of their disability. -
Autism Introduced by Dr. Kanner
Autism introduced by Dr. Leo Kanner at John Hopkins University. He wrote a paper titled Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact which described Autism in a way that was different from previous descriptions which described the disorder as “feeble minded, mental retardation, and idiotic. Link text -
Brown V Board of Education
Chief Justice Warren US Supreme Court- Separate but Equal has no place in public education, separate is not equal. Students of color were not to be educated in separate schools from their white peers. This leads to inclusion of students with disabilities in neighborhood schools. -
PARC V Pennsylvania
Students with disabilities have FAPE (free appropriate public education). Students with disabilities in Pennsylvania were denied public school education. The Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) fought the state so students with disabilities could attend public schools. -
Rehabilitation Act
Rehabilitation Act called for equality in activities and to make activities and buildings accessible and prohibits exclusion based on disabilities in programs that are run by the Federal Government. The act called for planning of improvement and access to services and rehabilitation for people with disabilities, especially those with severe disabilities. -
EAHCA
President Ford enacted The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA)- the law has been improved over time and is now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA). It was the first act that put into play rights for students with disabilities and started improving the education of students with disabilities. “Specific Learning Disability” was also added as a category of disability to the act in 1975. -
No Child Left Behind
President George W Bush signed No Child Left Behind into effect- Special Education students are not left out of school’s accountability systems. Special Education students are provided modifications and alternate assessments to monitor progress and hold teachers and school accountable.
