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- Hans Asperger 1944
1864 Through the Enabling Acts, signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The first National College was created to facilitate degrees for the deaf is opened.
1876 Edouard Seguin helps to organize the first professional association concerned with disabilities (mental retardation).
1897 The NEA creates a branch for teaches who specializes in the teaching of children with disabilities.
1898 Elizabeth Farrel creates a program dedicated to “slow and backward” children
1800 Jean Marc Gaspard Itard beings his work with Feral child Victor
1817 Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet finds the American Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb
1826 The first public school for mentally retarded people opens in Paris
1834 Louis Braille publishes the Braille code
1720 Daniel Defoe, Founder/creator of the English Novel, write the first critically accepted exposé on the Problems of Deaf people
2013 According to the Department of Education, $2,289,108,000 will be used on special education
1749-51 Denis Diderot publishes his study on the deaf and blind
1760 Abbé Charles Michel de L’Épée charters a school for deaf children in Paris
1791 First British school for the blind opens
1990 PL 10-476 or IDEA 1990 Emphasizes transition planning for adolescents with disabilities.
1916 The Standford-Binet Scale of Intelligence is published
1920 Columbia University is the First to train teachers in the area of gifted students
1936 Testing for the hearing and sight of school-aged children is put into law in New York
1400- early 1600s The “mentally unstable” were left to fend for themselves as long as they were not deemed dangerous to others.
1690 John Locke “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” expanded education. Pioneers of special education wrote about their endeavors to educate disabled students.
Former New York Governor
1963 Association for Children with Learning Disabilities is founded
1972 Wolf Wolfensberger brings "normalization" to the United States
1973 PL93-112 S 504 prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities.
1986 PL 99-457 mandates a special education for pre-schoolers with disabilities and provides intervention services to infants and toddlers
- Hippocrates 400 B.C