Special education history

  • doctors start the study of deafness and blindness

    2 doctors named Jean Marc Itard and Edouard Sequin started studying special needs.
  • Council of Exceptional Children

    It was founded to organize teachers who were working to help children with exceptionalities.
  • After World War 2 was growing .

    It was growing but there were not enough teachers and it was not wide spread yet.This is when it went federal.
  • California and Illinois begin special needs programs

    THe beginnings to the special programs for students.
  • Public law 88-164

    Authorized funds for training professionals to work with children with special needs and research and demonstration for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and deafness.
  • 504 Rehabilitation Act of 1973

    Children who might not meet the stringent criteria idea may still be judged eligible for services under 504.
  • Legistlation was designed to provide real help for the children

  • public law 94-142

    THe education for all Handicapped Children Act was designed to assure that all handicapped children have available to them a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs.
  • Six key Provisions of the Education for all Hadicapped Act

    Zero Reject,nondescriminatory evaluation,individualized education program,least restructive envirnoment,due process and parental participation.
  • public law 99-457

    Education of the hadicapped act ammendment of 1986 from birth on -changed to individuals with disablities Education IDEA.
  • American Disability Act of 1992

    This extends the civil rights of people with exceptionalities.
  • Public law 107-110

    No child left behind act has had an impact on all school age children and a special impact on children with disabilities.its purpose is to hold schools and educators responsible for bringing students to a minium level of compentencey It requires schools to represent test data to prove their effectivness.George W Bush and his administration developed this .
  • IDEA

    It was designed to strengthenand improve earlier versions.Some major changes are quality personnel,IEP's standards ,transistion services.