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The church became the first institution to provide care for physically or mentally impaired people.
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Isolated examples of caring for and treating disabled individuals in ancient Greece and Rome, however, early societies typically shunned people who suffered from the norm
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Development of techniques associated with special education, with an emphasis on human dignity begins to emerge during the Renaissance.
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Pedro Ponce de Leon succeeded in teach deaf pupils in Spain to speak, read, and write.
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Juan Pablo Bonet published the first book on the subject of teaching the deaf to speak, read and write.
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Charles-Michel abbe de lE'pee changed the nature of communication for deaf and hard of hearing persons by developing sign language into a systematic and convention language. It was further developed by Roch-Ambroise Cucurron and Abbe Sicard.
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In 1784, in Paris, Valentin Hauy opened the National Institution of Blind Youth with 12 blind children as his first pupils.
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Additional schools for educating the blind are opened in England, France, Switzerland, Russia, Sweden and North America.
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Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, a French physician and otologist wrote a book about his five-year effort to educate a boy found running wild in the woods of Aveyron. This work became notable for the possibilities it raised regarding the education of persons with mental or emotional disabilities.
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Edouard Seguin, a student of Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, devised an educational method to utilize physical and sensory activities to develop the mental processes.
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The Council for Exceptional Children was founded by a group of administrators and supervisors and faculty.
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Their mission statement includes a dedication to advancing the success of children with exceptionalities. They accomplish this through advocacy, standards, and professional development.
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The Captioned Films Acts of 1958 supported the production and distribution of accessible films.
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The Training of Professional Personnel Act of 1959 helped provide training to administrators and teachers of children with mental retardation. (This is now known as Intellectual and Developmental Disability)
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The Teachers of the Deaf Act of 1961 provided training to instructional personnel to students who were deaf of hearing impaired.
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The Elementary and Secondary Education Act in addition to the State Schools Act gave assistance with grants to help educate children with disabilities.
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US Schools educated only one in five children with disabilities and many state had laws excluding certain schools from school, including those who were deaf, blind, emotionally distrubed, or mentally retarded.
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The Education for All Handicapped Children Act gives children with exceptionalities specific legal rights to an education. Until then, these children with disabilities were not allowed to attend school at all. The act also contained a provision that stated that these students should be placed in the least restrictive environment to create the opportunity to interact with non-disabled students.
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The EHA was reformulated as the Individuals with Disabilities Act and focused even more on including students with disabilities in the classroom. The IDEA also created rights for parents to be involved in education decisions that affected their child. This was the beginning of IEP, Individualized Education Programs.
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Following the adoption of IDEA, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed and ensured the fair and equal access to employment opportunities as well as public housing and services based disability.
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Congress upheld the rights of the previous IDEA legislation and added the focus on academic outcomes for students with disabilities.
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The No Child Left Behind Act raises challenges for students with severe cognitive disabilities to take a general test because they are typically unable to achieve proficiency. The Education Department issued regulations giving the states the approval to change the assessments for some students with disabilities. These modifications covered the same content but made the questions easier for those with the most severe cognitive disabilities.
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In 2004, Congress amended the IDEA Act to increase state and local accountability for the education of disabled children as well as expanded the methodology for identifying students with specific learning disabilities. This also continued the commitment and support needed to make sure that those involved in special education and early intervention are highly qualified.
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