The Inclusion of Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders into the Public Schools

Asylums

Mar 16, 1600

People with Emotional and Bhevaorial Disorders were placed in asylums, and were considered insane. They lived in their excrements, and were somtimes chained to the wall.

Reforms

Mar 16, 1900

Dorothea Dix campaigned for more humane treatment for people placed in these asylums, and to change the way they lived.

Specialization

Mar 16, 1950

Educating students with EBD became a specialization, and the first priavte school for students was founded.

Congress

Mar 16, 1963

Congress passed P.L 88-164 which provded funding for teacher preparation for students with EBD.

Inlcusion

Mar 16, 2000

A mjaority of students are now being educated in public school special education classrooms, and the treatment now focuses on education, prevention, and early id.