Special Ed Timeline

By gcappalla

  • First ever advocacy groups created for special needs children

  • Programs for children with specific learning disabilities became more common

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Association for Children with Learning Disabilities Founded

  • Rehabilitation Act

  • IEP is first established

  • Education for all Handicapped Children Act

  • The Education for All Handicapped Children Act gave children with disabilities specific legal rights to an education

  • The EHA was reformulated as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

  • IDEA was reauthorized

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    Special Ed Timeline

  • No Child Left Behind Act

  • Assistive Tech Act

  • IDEA is updated

    -idea is consistently being worked on to best accommodate individuals with special needs

  • Met my classmate Kaitlyn

    I met my classmate Kaitlyn in kindergarten who wore a hearing aid

  • Volunteered to tutor

    worked with kids with various learning disability

  • VP of Sign Language Club

    I worked to learn basic sign language and teach others in my high school who were interested in learning sign language since it was not taught in my school

  • Volunteered to work w/ sped kids

    Helped them in ceramics class

  • Started student teaching

    -learned i'll be working 1-1 with a child with down syndrome