Timeline of special education

By Irishelle Estrada
 1817

1817

American Asylum for the Education of

the Deaf and dumb
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet becomes
principal of the American Asylum for the
Education of the Deaf and Dumb, the
first residential school for deaf in the
United States
 1831

1831

Samuel Gridley Howe

establishes the New
England Asylum for the
Blind
 1840

1840

Law Mandating Compulsory Education

Rhode Island passed a law

mandating compulsory education for
all children Compulsory education is
education which children are required
by law to receive and governments to
provide.
 1848

1848

Massachusetts School for Idiotic

and Feeble Minded Children
Samuel Gridley Howe
establishes the Massachusetts
School for Idiotic and Feeble
Minded Children
 1857

1857

National Teachers Association

This association came together to

promote education in the United States
and later became known as the National
Education Association(NEA)
 1869

1869

First public school class for

children with hearing impairments
open in Boston
The horace Mann School for the deaf and
Hard of hearing is the oldest public school
day school for deaf students. This school
empowers students as deaf individuals to
be lifelong learners.
 1870-1876
1870
The school for the deaf
The School for the Deaf and the School for the
Blind offer comprehensive educational
programs for hearing impaired and visually
impaired students. Many of the activities include
different kinds of sports or different academic
classes depending in their interest.
1876
First professional association
Edouard Seguin helps to organize the first
professional association concerned with
disabilities (mental retardation), predecessor to
today’ American Association on Mental
Retardation. Seguin is best known in the United
States for introducing “the physiological method.
He also believed that those with mental
retardation could be trained, and learn to do
things
 1886

1886

American Association on Mental deficiency

AAIDD, (formerly AAMR -- American Association

on Mental Retardation) is the oldest and largest
interdisciplinary organization of professionals
and others concerned about intellectual and
developmental disabilities. This organization is
helping over 5,000 worldwide to create a quality
of life for those who have a disabilities
 1898

1898
Elizabeth E. Farrell

While farrell was teacher she was teaching

classes who were becoming ungraded, she
became director of special education. While she
was working there she would test diagnostic
clinic to test schoolchildren for underlying
causes of poor academic achievement. the n
later become the first president of the Council
for Exceptional Children, begins a program for
“backwards” or “slow learning”
 1904

1904

The vineland training school

The Vineland Training School in New

Jersey inaugurates training programs
for teachers of students with mental
retardation Vineland Training School
was a non-profit organization with the
mission of educating people with
developmental disabilities so they
can live independently.
 1900-1950

1900 1950

National Association for Retarded Children

National Education Association(NEA) established
(NARC)
a section for teachers of children with disabilities

The organization advocates for disabled people

The National Education Association supports a
and helps them with issues like finding jobs, and
free, appropriate public education for all
helping employers adapt to the needs of
students with disabilities in a least restrictive
disabled people. The Arc is devoted to
environment, which is determined by maximum
promoting and improving supports and services
teacher and parent/guardian involvement
for all people with intellectual and
developmental disabilities.
 1954-1965
1954
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
This court case took place in 1954, in the supreme
court in which they unanimously ruled racial
segregation of children in public schools was
unconstitutional. This case was one of the main civil
rights movement, and helped establish the precedent
the separate-but-equal was in fact not equal.
1965
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
(PL 89-10)
Provided funds to states and local districts for
forming programs for and handicapped. This law also
emphasizes equal access to education and
establishes high standards and accountability. It
also states they want to provide each child with
fair-equal opportunities to achieve an
exceptional education.
 1968-1971

1968 1971

HOBSON V. HANSEN PARC v. Pennsylvania

In this supreme court case it alleged that low-income
black students were being denied equal educational
In this supreme court case it was being argued that t
all children, whether having an intellectual disability
opportunity.
or not, could benefit from any type of free training or
education.before taking this case to the court they
were denying giving out free education to kids who
have intellectual disability.the court ruled denying
free education to any student was unconstitutional
 1971-1973
1971
1973
Mills v. D.C. Board of Education
Section 504:Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973(PL
93-112)
In the district of Columbia students of
mental health were being excluded from This federal civil rights law prohibits
school or denied educational services that would discrimination of individuals with disabilities in
any program receiving federal funding.students
have addressed the needs that arose from their
who have a mental or physical disorder may
identified disabilities.The court reasoned that
receive an Accommodation Plan to ensure
because the children would have been opportunity and access comparable to that of
entitled under the school code in the District non-disabled peers.
of Columbia to attend free public schools,
each child had a right to such an education.
 1975-1986

1975 1986

Education for All Handicapped Children Act Education of the Handicapped Amendment of 1986 (PL
Amendments(PL 94-142) 99-457)

This public law makes education for children with mental or

This act required all public schools who accept
physical disabilities for free. This law also makes The law
federal funds to provide equal access to education makes a requirement for states that offer
and one free meal a day to children with physical or interdisciplinary educational services to disabled
mental disabilities. he act also required that toddlers, infants, and their families to receive financial
school districts provide administrative grants
procedures so that parents of disabled children
could dispute decisions made about their
children’s education.
 1990-1997
1990
Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of
1990.
Renamed as the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA). Reauthorized and expanded
discretionary programs, mandated transition
services, defined assistive technology devices and
services, and added autism and traumatic brain
injury to the list of disability categories
1997
IDEA Reauthorized(PL 105-17)
This law switch to focus to school access
to a general education curriculation, this
law required all students with disabilities
to be included in the state district wide
assessments, they also added a
developmental delay category for
children ages 3 to 9 to expand option for
dispute resolution.
 2002-2004
2002
No child left behind
The primary purpose of NCLB is to
ensure that students in every public
school achieve important learning goals
while being educated in safe classrooms
by well-prepared teachers
2004
P.L. 108‐446, Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act of 2004
highly qualified special education teacher, expanded
dispute resolution options, to provide access to
instructional materials, allowed IDEA funds to be
used for early intervening services to serve students
not IDEA eligible, ensured services for students
attending private schools, homeless and highly
mobile.
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