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School for the Deaf Established
Thomas Hoskins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc established the school. This was the first attempt to educate individuals with disabilities. They created a formal program for deaf individuals. The school was the only one in the world at that time. today it is the only higher education created to meet the needs of deaf and hard of hearing students. -
School for the Blind
Established by physician Sam Gridley Howe in 1834, The Perkins Institution formalized education for individuals who were blind. Howe was a leader in early educational reform. -
Dorthea Dix
Dix was an American nurse who championed changing how individuals with disabilities were treated. She began soliciting her legislators to create change and establish laws protecting individuals with disabilities. She wanted to construct a facility that would protect and care for the treatment of the mentally ill. New Jersey was the first to pass a bill to establish a state facility. -
EASTERSEALS
Committed to ensuring that the needs of children and adults with disabilities, veterans, and older adults are met with services and support to help them live, learn, work, and play in their communities. -
Buck vs Bell
The movement's goal was to decrease unfit reproduction through separation and exclusion. Buck vs Bell was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that sterilization laws were lawful. The increasing acceptance of the Eugenics theory and the decline in the need for laborers led to a period of repression for individuals with disabilities. -
Brown vs Board of Education
This court case overturned Plessy vs Ferguson which uphels segregation. The brown case was declared to be unequivocally unconstitutional and schools had to begin to change to integrated schools. -
S.S Amendments of 1956
The Social Security Amendments of 1956 provided income benefits to people with disabilities from age 50 to 65 and those who were disabled before turning 18. Eventually, it was expanded. -
Community Health Act
The Act drastically altered the delivery of mental health services and inspired a new era of optimism in mental healthcare. This was also known as the Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963. Kennedy signed it into law. It provided federal funding to community health centers and research facilities in the U.S. -
The Medicare Law of 1965
This was an amendment to the amendment of Social Security Act of 1935. Medicare and Medicaid were created to provide healthcare benefits for seniors, individuals with disabilities, and low-income families. Title XVII, There are two parts and part b affords supplementary medical insurance. Title XIX Medicaid provides financial means to states to finance health care for individuals who are near the threshold for receiving public aid. -
Act of 1968
This act required accessibility for people with disabilities at all Federally funded buildings to be designed so those with disabilities can gain access. -
PARC
The Association sued the state of Pennsylvania for not providing education for students with intellectual disabilities. The (PARC) won the case, and it also stated that the most favorable place for these students was in an educational setting. -
Center for Independent Living
These Centers were created to offer peer support and role modeling and are run and controlled by persons with disabilities. -
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Prohibited discrimination in federally funded programs. It revised funding of state grants for vocational rehabilitation services, specifically for people with severe disabilities. It requires schools to afford students with disabilities comparable accommodations to those of their non-disabled peers. -
The Act of 1975
Gerald Ford signed into law. This law required all public schools to admit and educate students with disabilities. This was across every state and locality across the country. -
(DREDF)
Leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities. -
The National organization on Disability (NOD)
Alan Reich founded it to continue the momentum of promoting disability inclusion. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
President George Bush signed into law in 1990. It protects and defends people with disabilities from discrimination in the workplace, school, and other environments. The law requires employers and educational institutions to implement reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. -
IDEA
George Bush signed into law.IDEA holds educational institutions accountable and helps create opportunities for students with federally identified disabilities in their transition to post-secondary education or the workplace. IDEA mandates that schools ensure "free and appropriate public education" for students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. It also established The IEP. https://sites.ed.gov/idea/ -
The Higher Education Act (HEOA)
This helped to aid students with intellectual disabilities. It provides opportunities for grants and Federal work-study programs. It gives the Secretary of Education the right to discard specific sections of the law that may have kept students with disabilities from attending post-secondary education. -
ACA Act
Barack Obama signed into law. A patient protection health care reform law that prohibits discrimination based on disability or health status in acquiring health insurance. -
