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History of Special Education
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Dr. Alfred Binet-identify “slow” or “retarded” children-IQ test
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Vocational Rehabilitation Act-response to WW I soldiers with disabilities
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Disabled students represent an unassimilable accumulation of human clinkers, ballast driftwood, or derelicts which serious retards the rate of progress of the entire class and which often constitutes a positive irritant to the teacher and other pupils.
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Segregation gives any human being a skewed culture. The handicapped needs special understanding rather that special class. . . . Special education to0day is in the unenviable position of tempering evil winds to the most closely shorn victims of outmoded a
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Child-centered and integration approaches to special education represent the goo of wishful thinking
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Parents advocating for public school education for children with disabilities
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First Center for Independent Living (CIF)
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Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142)
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“Is mainstreaming a good idea?” is a bit like asking, “Is Tuesday a good idea?” Both are wrong questions. It’s not so much whether mainstreaming and Tuesdays are good ideas as what we make of them . . . . For some things, we need no evidence.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
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Americans with Disabilities Act
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Reauthorization of Elementary and Secondary Education Act-No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
