Exceptional Children

1790s

• Phillipe Pine removes the chains attached to people with mental illnesses at an asylum in Paris.
• Some patients have been chained to the walls for over 30 years.

1800s

• Jean-March Gaspard Itard establishes some principles and methods used in education of people with mental illnesses
• 1829- Louis Braille Invents the Raised Point Alphabet
• 1840- The first sheltered workshop for the Blind is established at the Perkins Institute in Massachusetts

1800s

• William Little starts to identify Cerebral Palsy
• American Civil War results in over 30,000 amputations which is the catalyst for disability issues in America

1900s

• 1907- Indiana is the first of 24 states to pass a eugenic sterilization law for idiots, imbeciles and rapists in state institutions.
• 1918- Congress passes a major rehabilitation program for soldiers returning from WWI

1900s

• 1919- Edgar Allen founds the Ohio Society for Crippled Children which is now the national Easter Seals organization

1900s

• 1925- Samuel Orton begins studying dyslexia
• 1927- Compulsory Sterilization of mental defectives ruled Constitutional
• 1932- FDR founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which is now known as the March of Dimes
• 1934- California Council of the Blind is formed

1900s

• 1935- FDR signs the Social Security Act which establishes a program of assistance to adults with disabilities
• 1939-1941- The Nazi euthanasia program called Aktion T4 is used to eliminate people with intellectual or physical disabilities

1900s

• EHA: Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1975) required all schools receiving federal money to provide students with disabilities with a Free and Appropriate Public Education

2000s

• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (formally known as EHA) was reauthorized to focus more on the individual instead of the disability

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• NCLD Youth Timeline
• http://www.ncld-youth.info/index.php?id=61