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Treatment of those with Disabilities (1800's)
"A rich literature describes the treatment provided to individuals with disabilities in the 1800s: They were often confined in jails and almshouses without decent food, clothing, personal hygiene, and exercise" Read more: Special Education - Current Trends, Preparation Of Teachers, International Context - HISTORY OF - Disabilities, Students, Century, and Children - StateUniversity.com https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2438/Special-Education.html#ixzz7JCTBCzGa -
First Special Education School
In 1817 the first special education school in the United States, the American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (now called the American School for the Deaf)
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Anne Sullivan Macy
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Exclusion in schools
"the Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld the expulsion of a student solely due to poor academic ability" https://www.naesp.org/sites/default/files/resources/1/Principal/2008/N-Oweb2.pdf -
Denying Eduction
"Nearly 30 years later, the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied education to a student with cerebral palsy because he “produce[d] a depressing and nauseating effect upon the teachers and school children”
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research on exceptional children
the first institution for research on exceptional children opened at the University of Illinois and began what was to become the newest focus of the field of special education: the slow learner and, eventually, what we know today as learning disability.
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An amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
"provided federal funds for public education for students with disabilities."
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The Rehabilitation Act
"People who have disabilities may not be declined benefits from programs that get federal funds."
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The Education for All Handicapped Children Act
"signed into law. Mandates students with disabilities must receive free, adequate, and individualized education."
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Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley
"stated that students who qualify for special education programs must be provided with individualized instruction to meet their specific needs."
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Increasing needs
by 1990 students who qualified for spe- cial education services had increased 23 percent since 1976, the year after the Education for All Handicapped Children Act took effect.
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Amendments to IDEA
"ensure the availability of meaningful, measurable programs for students with special needs. It also improved parents’ involvement in the development of their child’s individualized education program (IEP)"
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Growing Special Education population
special education in the United States was serving over five million students. Read more: Special Education - Current Trends, Preparation Of Teachers, International Context - HISTORY OF - Disabilities, Students, Century, and Children - StateUniversity.com https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2438/Special-Education.html#ixzz7JCSu0up4 -
The No Child Left Behind Act
"improved the quality of special education programs at the state level by requiring statewide assessments and highly qualified, specially trained professionals to teach students with disabilities"
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Emily Starts school
I started kindergarten. -
Every Student Succeeds Act
responds to the criticisms of the NCLB. touches on state authority, annual testing, accountability, reporting. -
Help the Special Needs students in high school
We had a group of special need student sin my art class and I sat with them in class and helped with their projects etc. -
Graduation
I graduated highschool -
Worked at elementary school
When I worked at a daycare site for an elementary school, we had students with disabilities and I had to adjust and learn how to work with them. -
Graduated College
I graduated with my Bachelors of Arts in History.