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First American School for the Disabled
The Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons. This institution opened up on April 15th of 1817 and was located in Hartford, Connecticut. This school was established by Thomas Gallaudet with the help of a deaf teacher which was also from France named Lauren Clerc. https://gallaudet.edu/museum/exhibits/history-through-deaf-eyes/formation-of-a-community/a-solemn-responsibility-a-cup-of-consolation/ -
Mills vs Board of Education of The District of Columbia
The commonwealth of Pennsylvania addressed the issue of education for children with disabilities. During this time period millions of children that had disabilities were refused to be enrolled in public schools, at the same time these children were not being given the same type of quality education as the children who did not have disabilities in public school. -
Vocational Rehabilitation Act
This act as amended in order to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disabilities in programs that were ran by federal agencies. These programs received federal financial assistance in order for it to work. The primary goal for this act was to forbid organizations and their employers from excluding individuals that have disabilities with equal opportunities in order to receive the benefits and the services that the program has to offer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IpL_2NRgTk -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA)
This act was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on November 29th, 1975 to be able to guarantee a free and appropriate public education to every child that has a disability in every state and locality in the country. With this act it requires all schools are required to evaluate a child’s special needs and be able to develop an IEP for each child while also being able to include the parents of the child and also being inclusive in the classroom to be able to accommodate both. -
PAVE: First Parent Center
PAVE gives support, training, information and other information to be able to empower and give voices to individuals, youth and families who are impacted by disabilities. This began in 1979 when Pierce County because they were identified as one of the six locations in the United States that were able to receive training that regard Special Education rights for children and their families. -
Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments
Amends the intervention and mandates that each individual state provides services to families of children that were born with disabilities from the time that they are born. Before that this act was amended the services were not available until the child had reached the age of three. This website gives more information and helps understand more in depth of what the act is https://sites.ed.gov/idea/IDEA-History#:~:text=The%201986%20reauthorization%20(Public%20Law,reached%20the%20age%20of%20three. -
IDEA replaces the EAHCA
Until 1990 what is now known as IDEA used to be known as the Education of Handicapped Children Act that was passed in 1975 butt in 1990 the passed a law and changed it to IDEA which stands for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only was this act renamed it added two disabilities to their list which are traumatic brain injury and autism. This act is all about children that have disabilities are able to get free public education that is appropriate. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
The American Disabilities Act which is also known as the ADA became a law in 1990 and it fights civil rights laws that prohibited the discrimination against ones with disabilities in every aspect of their lives to make sure that they are inclusive. It was amended in 1990 but received changes in 2008 by the ADA Amendment Act which then made it a “Public Law” just so it can be more available to each individual. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This act was created in order to be able to improve public primary and secondary schools along with being able to enhance students performance from the accountability that the schools will have to hold to a higher standard. This does not only include the schools but it also wanted the school districts and the states to hold them to this standard and make it possible for students with disabilities to be able to have the same type of quality education as children who do not have disabilities. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
This is a law that makes it available for students with disabilities to get free appropriate public education throughout the nation and makes sure that special education and services that relate to the children are given to them. This act is in place from the age of 3 up until they are 21 or unt8il they graduate from a university and this will help them get the education that they need but at the same time meets their individual needs.