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Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons
Opened in Hartford, CT -
Samuel Gridley
Opened Perkins Institution for the Blind -
Braille Code first published
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American Printing House Established
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National Deaf Mute College
Later renamed Gallaudet Univ -
IQ Modern Testing
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon -
Mentally Retarded Term Introduced
The term "gifted" appeared in professional Literature -
Asperger Syndrome
Dr. Hans Asperger -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
"Separate" is not "equal"
Allowed for parents of students with disabilities to contend their students were not receiving adequate education -
Start to an End of Exclusion
Until the 1960's students with disabilities were segregated from students without disabilities -
Samuel A. Kirk
Introduced the term "Learning Disabilities" -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
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Mainstream Inclusion
students with mild disabilities were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. Students were only “visiting” the general education class and not really being instructed -
Compulsory attendance
Exclusionary practices upheld in courts -
Amends Education for All Handicapped Children Act
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Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Vs Rowley
Free Appropriate
Public Education
(FAPE) -
Amends Education for All Handicapped Children Act
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Amends Education for All Handicapped Children Act
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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Amends Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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Amends Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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No Child Left Behind
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Rosa's Law
Signed by President Obama changing federal language usage from mental retardation to intellectual disability
