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From Cruelty to Understanding: Trends in Special Education From Then To Now

From CRUELTY to UNDERSTANDING Trends in SPECIAL EDUCATION from then to now THE ROAD TO INCLUSION HOW FAR WE'VE COME... For thousands of years the disabled were 1552 BC abandoned and treated as O UTCASTS. Earliest reference to intellectual disability: EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS 96% OF THEBES 800 BC of children with disabilities are educated in regular public schools * That's 6.7 million kids! * Ancient Greeks 6 Romans thought Y disabled children were born because THE GODS WERE ANGRY. 1776 Stephen Hopkins was a Declaration of Independence signer with cerebral palsy. Upon signing, he said: "My hands may tremble, but my heart does not." COLONIAL AMERICA Parents had few options other than to educate their children at home or pay for expensive private education. Staphtophins Sad But True MORON (1Q 50-70), IMBECILE (IQ 35-49), and IDIOT (IQ under 35) were once acceptable clinical terms for describing the intellectually disabled A CHANGE IS BREWING... Enrollment Year One) Later On 1817 The Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons opens. It is the first permanent school for the deaf in the U.S. BY 1818 1829 The New England Asylum for the Blind opens as the first school in the U.S. for children with visual disabilities. 60 1839 BY More to be done.. By 1969, more than 1 MILLION children with disabilities are still excluded from schools, with HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS housed in state institutions. MODERN LEGISLATION PAVES THE WAY FOR EQUAL RIGHTS 1975 2001 IDEA 1990 ADA No Child Left Behind Individuals with Disabilities The Americans with Education Act Disabilities Act Our nation's first Landmark legislation. Children with disabilities have the right to attend public schools and learn in regular classrooms. comprehensive civil rights law protecting the rights and needs of the disabled. Law calling for all students, including students with disabilities, to be proficient in math and reading by 2014. 1985: . Only 1 in 5 children with a disability is educated in a regular school. THE NUMBERS 4.1M 1980-81 percentage of students 50 6.7M 2004-05 with disabilities that spend at least 2010-11 6.4M Number of children and youth, ages 3-21 receiving special ed services of their day in regular classrooms 80% TODAY: Thanks to IDEA, that number has risen to 96% In the last ZO years.. | 3X 2X COLLEGE ENROLLMENT RATES among students The special education TEACHING FORCE has with disabilities have more than tripled more than doubled THE FUTURE OF SPECIAL ED: 2013-2014 AND BEYOND Ways to make things better %24 With budgets tighter, and fewer teachers, program reforms needed Increase the use of technologies, iPads, & apps to aid teachers Maximizing the meaningful interaction between students and their nondisabled peers 2013 MODERN DAY HEROES & VILLAINS THE VILLAIN: SEQUESTRATION CELEBRITY HEROES • 300,000• Students receiving special education services will be affected EVA LONGORIA Started Eva's Heroes, which helps teens and young adults with special needs. Over NO. OF SPECIAL ED TEACHERS LAID OFF 10,000 DUE TO SEQUESTRATION (2012) 15% Reduction in federal funding of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) HENRY WINKLER The Fonz is dyslexic. He is now a children's This Means book author. Many schools will have fewer speech, occupational or physical therapists Many schools will have fewer social workers and school JIMMY KIMMEL psychologists Fundraiser. Has an autistic relative. Federal share of only aka the LOWEST funding states contribution 14.9% for special ed by percent SKECHERS programs falls to dating to 2001. SHOE COMPANY $579 WHICH SUPPORTS STUDENTS Fundraisers for AGES 3-21 WITH: MILLION CUT FROM IDEA PART B, special needs kids. LEARNING DISABILITIES SPEECH IMPAIRMENTS INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AUTISM/EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCES SYLVESTER STALLONE Son had autism; According tocdrne Duncan. Sec. of the Dept. of Education: a fundraiser. .COULD BE $900 MILLION EXCLUDED FROM DEVOTED TOWARDS STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS FUTURE FUNDING PROPOSITIONSS. Question: Thousands of years after Plato, are we REALLY treating Special Ed kids any better than the Greeks and Romans would have? Brought to you by: SPECIAL-EDUCATION-DEGREE.NET Citations http://www.examiner.com/article/morons-imbeciles-and-idiots http://www.ncld-youth.info/index.php?id%361 http://www.eds-resources.com/educationhistorytimeline.html http://www.catherineshafer.com/history.html http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cgg.asp http://www.aypf.org/publications/special_ed.pdf http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=13718page=all http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=68 http://admin.fortschools.org/PupilServices/Staffinfo/A%20TIME- LINE%200F%20SPECIAL%20EDUCATION%20HISTORY.htm http://www.edubabbling.com/4-top-trends-in-education-for-2013-2014/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/10/seques- ter-hits-special-education/2793001/ http://special-needs.adoption.com/children/promising-practic- es-and-future-directions-for-special-education.html http://www.futureofeducation.com/profiles/blogs/the-evolution-of-special-education http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/1990s/ada.html

From Cruelty to Understanding: Trends in Special Education From Then To Now

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Believe it or not, special education was not always accepted in the public education system and was in fact rejected at one point. Learn about the history of special education and how students with le...

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