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Before the 19th century, there were not many programs to accommodate students with disabilities. Most early special education schools to open were for the deaf and blind. Throughout the rest of the 1800s, The invention of braille and the recognition of disabled students in the opening of several colleges around the country..
The oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States was founded in 1817. The American School for the Deaf was in Hartford, Connecticut and . This school was the first formal education for disabled students and represents the first efforts on an educational level to teach disabled people.
The first law in the US to mandate the teaching of reading and writing was passed in 1642 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Though this doesn't correlate directly with education for disabled students, it was essential in the progress of special education. Without this law passed when it was, the schooling and laws passed for students with disabilities would have been pushed back or possibly erased completely.
Louis Braille invented the Braille writing system in 1824. He was blinded at the age of 3, and he invented the writing as an as an adaptation of the night writing system. For blind students, Braille gives them the opportunity to be more independent and, in turn, more accommodated in the education system.. Braille is still used today in everyday life and in schools for disabled students.
The mid to late 20th century was important in the progress of special education. Now that schools for disabled students were opened and all students were required to go to school, lawmakers started creating laws to help make school more accommodating for disabled students.
Brown vs. Board of Education were a series of lawsuits filed against the supreme court in BLANK. The lawsuit was filed because African-American students were still forced to go to separate schools than white children. The Supreme Court determined that segregation in schools was a violation of the constitution and the lawsuit was successful. This case started a chain of activism for better education for students with disabilities.. Parents of disabled children saw through Brown v.Board that there children's were not equal and laws need to be changed to get better special education programs.
In 1965, the US Congress passed an act that gives primary and secondary education federal funding. This law covers materials for class, program resources, and parent involvement. This act was created to provide equal education to all students, regardless of economic status. This is important to special education because it gave schools the funding need to give students with disabilities the resources they need.
P.A.R.C. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was a class action suit for 14 children disabilities who had been denied public schooling in Pennsylvania. It was concluded that the exclusion of disabled students from public schools was a violation of the Equal Protection clause and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This is a reflection of the cause that created Brown v. Board of education
Mills v. Board of Education was a lawsuit on behalf of several children who were not allowed in public education because of mental, behavioral, or physical disabilities. The court ruled that no child should be hindered in schooling because of a disability.
The IDEA act is a federal law created to support disabled students and give resources to programs for children with disabilities. This act was originally passed in 1975, but it has changed several times in recent years as new amendments have been made. This is huge for special education because it shows accountability for schools and the government.
In the last 20 years, special education has taken a bigger spotlight in the public eye than ever before. The concern of disabled student's education is not just at the hands of parents, but instead addressed on a national platform.
NCLB is a law that passed in 2002 as an update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. NCLB gives accountability to the schools of their students with required testing and mandating of "proficient level" learning. Each school is required under the NCLB laws to have all students, including those with disabilities, at a designated learning level.
This act is similar to the IDEA act in that it makes schools responsible for the learning of the students. With the IDEA act, all schools were mandated to have free education for each student, With NCLB, schools extend this responsibility by having to teach all students at a progressive level. Both laws change the way that schools treat students with disabilities and the special education program.
In 2020, complaints were filed against a private school in California because parents were concerned their children with disabilities were be wrongfully treated. Specifically a parent filed that her child had been restrained 77 times at the school, which provides elementary and secondary autism services. The case reached a settlement and the school agreed to implement nondiscrimination policies.
In the last 100 years, special education has made extensive strides. In the future, I believe that students with disabilities will continue to receive legislative backup in their education. Now that schools are paying attention to SPED and see that equal education is everyone's right, conditions in the SPED will continue to improve. Teachers are held to a higher standard, and I believe that the requirements to teach special education will increase.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Braille-writing-system
https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/massachusetts-passes-first-education-law.html
https://blog.ed.gov/2015/04/what-is-esea/
https://disabilityjustice.org/right-to-education/
https://www.washington.edu/doit/what-individuals-disabilities-education-act#header
https://disabilityjustice.org/right-to-education/