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1. SPECIAL EDUCATION Violeta, Rosechel L. and Taduran, Vanessa Rose L ._ BSEDEN 3-1

2. WHAT IS SPECIAL EDUCATION? It refers to a range of services that can be provided in different ways and in different settings.

3. HISTORY OF SPECIAL EDUCATION Violeta, Rosechel L. and Taduran, Vanessa Rose L. / Foundation of Special and Inclusive Education / PUP Sta. Maria, Bulacan Campus

4. Early 1800s Most SWD didn’t attend and exempted to school. Person with disabilities were not taken in consideration and often mistaken as being possessed by evil, powers, cursed or stupid.

5. 18 th Century Period of Enlightenment . Jean, Jacques Rousseau published his Emile , a book about the education of children. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard , concerned with the different methods used in order to educate disabled children.

6. 1760 Chareles Michel L’Epe found the first public school for people with disabilities in France. 1784 L’Epee’s path and Valentin Hauy founded the Institutional National des Jeunes Aveugles , the first school in the world for the education of blind people.

7. 19 th Century Special Education became more palpable, with efforts from people such as Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, and Samuel Howe in taking action on the matter of special education.

8. 1817 Where the growing number of Isolated school for SWD were available. 1829 Howe founded the first school in for blind children in the United States and it’s called now as Perkins School for the blind. 1850 1848 Hartford, Connecticut, Rev. Thomas Gallaudet implemented the first school for deaf. Howe was also the founder of the Massachusetts School for idiotic and Feebleminded children.

9. 1851 First School for retarded children was open in Connecticut. 1853 Pennysylavania Training School from Feebleminded Children opened. 1858 1857 A school opened in Albany. Ohio State opened the Institution of the Feebleminded youth.

10. 1876 It was the states responsibility to provide institutions for the special children. 1878 Two more special education classes opened in Cleveland. 1890 1880 Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feebleminded Person was found. Individual with disabilities began to place in an institutions which is similar to a jail.

11. 1897 The department of Special Education was created by the National Education Association.

12. 20 th Century Is characterized by the implementation of laws to assure that people with disabilities would have their rights to education guaranteed.

13. 1906 All states recognized that all citizens have the right to education. 1908 Alfred Binet together with Theodore Simon, create the intelligence scale. 1918 1916 New York University included in the courses offered by the school a training program for special education teachers. The idea of intelligence quotient was introduced by Lewis Terman .

14. 1920 Blind persons are included in the Social Security Act of 1935. 1922 The council for Exceptional Children (CEC) was found by Elizabeth Farrel . Laws that protect those with disabilities. 1936 1931 More and more students with disabilities have now separate classes and rooms. The United States Office of Education established a section on the exceptional children.

15. 1950 The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed and it provided funds for schools in order to have a proper environment for children with disabilities. 1954 Stated from the supreme court of the United States that All the children have the right to education in equal terms. 1965 1958 The National Association for Retarded Children (NARC) was founded by parents of children with mental disabilities asking that every mentally retarded child has the right for education. Pres. Eisenhower signed public law 85-926, which provided to college and universities to make sure that courses would be offered to prepare teachers for special education.

16. 1966 The case of Mills vs. District of Columbia Board of Education. 1970 Legislation Funding started. Laws were funding about SWD and Public Law 94-142 as the foundation of public Special Education. 1972 1971 It was the turn of Education Of Handicapped Act, which was passed in order to grant funds to school to train teachers. The case of Pennsylavania Association of Retarded Children Vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylavania .

17. 1973 The PL 94-142 revised again. 1975 The sum of al small acts towards the education of handicapped children emerged in one law. 1997 1990 Rehabilitation Act was passed and assured the rights of people with disabilities in respect to a non discriminative environment in education, employment, and housing. American with Disabilities Act was passed guaranteeing that implementation would be made to people with disabilities in the work envirnement , as well as in public transformation, and telecommunications. Students has the right to General Education Curriculum.

18. Today Most of the Schools today push the INCLUSION MOVEMENT, in where all of the SWD has an opportunity to participate with Non Disability general education peers.

19. References: Blackhurst, A. E. & Berdine , W. H. (1993). An Introduction to Special Education (3rd ed.). New York, NY: HarperCollins College Publisher. Frankavella , J. (2019). The History Special Education. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=history+of+special+education . Getty, L. (2020). iStock. Retrieved from: https://www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/students-with-disabilities?mediatype=illustration&phrase=students%20with%20disabilities&sort=mostpopular Winzer , M. (1993). The History of Special Education: from Isolation to Integration Washington DC Gallaudet University Press.

20. Prepared by: Taduran , Vanessa Rose L. Violeta, Rosechel L.