4. Early 1800s
Most SWD didn’t attend and
exempted to school.
Person with disabilities were
not taken in consideration
and often mistaken as being
possessed by evil, powers,
cursed or stupid.
5. 18th Century
Period of Enlightenment.
Jean, Jacques Rousseau
published his Emile, a book
about the education of children.
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard,
concerned with the different
methods used in order to
educate disabled children.
6. 1760
• Chareles Michel L’Epe found
the first public school for
people with disabilities in
France.
1784
• L’Epee’s path and Valentin
Hauy founded the Institutional
National des Jeunes Aveugles,
the first school in the world for
the education of blind people.
7. 19th Century
Special Education became more
palpable, with efforts from
people such as Rev. Thomas
Gallaudet, and Samuel Howe in
taking action on the matter of
special education.
8. 1817
Where the growing number
of Isolated school for SWD
were available.
1829
Howe founded the first school in
for blind children in the United
States and it’s called now as
Perkins School for the blind.
18501848
Hartford, Connecticut, Rev.
Thomas Gallaudet
implemented the first school
for deaf.
Howe was also the founder of
the Massachusetts School for
idiotic and Feebleminded
children.
9. 1851
First School for retarded
children was open in
Connecticut.
1853
Pennysylavania Training School
from Feebleminded Children
opened.
18581857
A school opened in Albany.
Ohio State opened the
Institution of the
Feebleminded youth.
10. 1876
It was the states
responsibility to provide
institutions for the special
children.
1878
Two more special education
classes opened in Cleveland.
18901880
Association of Medical Officers
of American Institutions for
Idiotic and Feebleminded
Person was found.
Individual with disabilities
began to place in an
institutions which is similar
to a jail.
11. 1897
The department of Special
Education was created by the
National Education
Association.
12. 20th Century
Is characterized by the
implementation of laws to
assure that people with
disabilities would have their
rights to education guaranteed.
13. 1906
All states recognized that
all citizens have the right to
education.
1908
Alfred Binet together with
Theodore Simon, create the
intelligence scale.
19181916
New York University included
in the courses offered by the
school a training program for
special education teachers.
The idea of intelligence
quotient was introduced by
Lewis Terman.
14. 1920
Blind persons are included
in the Social Security Act of
1935.
1922
The council for Exceptional
Children (CEC) was found by
Elizabeth Farrel. Laws that
protect those with disabilities.
19361931
More and more students
with disabilities have now
separate classes and rooms.
The United States Office of
Education established a
section on the exceptional
children.
15. 1950
The Elementary and Secondary
Education Act was passed and it
provided funds for schools in order
to have a proper environment for
children with disabilities.
1954
Stated from the supreme court of
the United States that All the
children have the right to
education in equal terms.
19651958
The National Association for Retarded
Children (NARC) was founded by
parents of children with mental
disabilities asking that every mentally
retarded child has the right for
education.
Pres. Eisenhower signed public law
85-926, which provided to college and
universities to make sure that courses
would be offered to prepare teachers
for special education.
16. 1966
The case of Mills vs.
District of Columbia Board
of Education.
1970
Legislation Funding started. Laws
were funding about SWD and Public
Law 94-142 as the foundation of
public Special Education.
19721971
It was the turn of Education Of
Handicapped Act, which was
passed in order to grant funds
to school to train teachers.
The case of Pennsylavania
Association of Retarded
Children Vs. Commonwealth
of Pennsylavania.
17. 1973
The PL 94-142 revised
again.
1975
The sum of al small acts towards the
education of handicapped children
emerged in one law.
19971990
Rehabilitation Act was passed and
assured the rights of people with
disabilities in respect to a non
discriminative environment in
education, employment, and housing.
• American with Disabilities Act was passed
guaranteeing that implementation would be
made to people with disabilities in the work
envirnement, as well as in public transformation,
and telecommunications.
• Students has the right to General Education
Curriculum.
18. Today
Most of the Schools today push the
INCLUSION MOVEMENT, in
where all of the SWD has an
opportunity to participate with Non
Disability general education peers.
19. References:
Blackhurst, A. E. & Berdine, W. H. (1993). An Introduction to Special Education
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