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Special Education


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1700s Jean-Marc Gaspard ItardA French Physician of Special Education. He worked with deaf

children. In 1801 he discovered a young boy roaming wild in the

woods of France. Between 1801 and 1805he used a systematic

techniques to teach the boy named Victor how to communicate

with others and how to perform by daily living skills such asdressing himself.


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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1817)

It was this year that the first deaf school was

created in Hartford, Connecticut. This school was

inspired by Alice Cogswell, a neighbor who was

deaf.


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Perkins School for the Blind (1829)

This is where Helen Keller and Anne

Sullivan were educated.


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Samuel Gridley Howe (1832)Famous American reformer and abolitionist founded the

New England Asylum for the Blind(Perkins Institute). He

was the first person to successfully teach a person who

was both blind and deaf. The Perkins Institution in Boston,

Massachusetts was the first residential institution for

people with mental retardation.


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Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb

and Blind (1864)

It was the first college inthe world established for

people with disabilities.


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Elizabeth Farrell (1918)

Founded the Council for

exceptional children


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Jacobus Broek (1940)

Founded the National Federation of the Blind in Wilkes-

Barre, Pennsylvania. They advocated for white cane laws,

input by blind people for programs for blind clients and

other reforms.


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Paul Strachan(1940)Founded the American Federation of the Physically

Handicapped. He was the first cross-disability national

political organization to urge an end to job

discrimination, lobby for passage of legislation, call for

a National Employ the Physically Handicapped Weekand other activities.


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Pres. Harry Truman (1945)Signed PL-176 creating an annual National

Employ the Handicapped Week


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Pres. John F. Kennedy (1961)

Appointed a special Presidents Panel onMental Retardation. Increased interest in

employment issues affecting people with

cognitive disabilities and mental illness

were reflected.


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American Disabled for Public Transit (ADAPT)1978

It held a transit bus hostage in Denver, Colorado. A

yearlong civil disobedience campaign followed to

force the Denver Transit Authority to purchase

wheelchair lift-equipped buses.


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International Year of Disabled (1981)

During the year, governments were

encourage to sponsor programs bringing

people with disabilities into the

mainstream for their societies.


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Mental Illness Bill of Rights Act (1985)

Required states to provide protection and

advocacy services for people with

psychological disabilities.


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Pres. George Bush (1990)

Signed the Americans

with Disabilities Act


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Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)

The act provided comprehensive civil rights

protection for people with disabilities. Closely

modelled after the Civil Rights Act Section 504, the

law was the most sweeping disability rights in

legislation in history.


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