History of Special Education
Abstract
This paper will discuss the history of special education including a timeline of the significant events that happens in the history of special education. It would further discuss the laws associated with Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Furthermore, this paper will address the current and future challenges the laws have on special education.
All children are created differently with different talents and abilities. Some are tall, others are short. Some are big, others are small. Not only are their physical attributes different, but children also adapt to different teaching styles. However, the differences among most students are reasonably minute and it allows for those children to be taught in a general education program. On the other hand, exceptional students differ from the norm and require special individualized attention called special education. Special education pertains to the teaching of students with unique requirements in a way that tackles each student’s individual needs and differences. Although, special education is necessity for disabled children, there have been huge obstacles in the history of special education. For nearly 200 years following the United States being established in 1776, nothing was done to precede the privileges of its exceptional students. Actually, more than 4.5 million students were deprived of a sufficient education. Overall, children with disabilities were denied the right to attend public schools. The children that had mild to moderate disabilities were more likely to dropping out because there was no special individualized teaching that would meet the disabled student’s needs and differences. Therefore, that left parents with disabled children only had two options: to keep their children at home with them or to have them institutionalized. These children were described as incorrigible, backward, steamer children, and truant. By the 1920s some cities, not many, created special classed for
This paper will discuss the history of special education including a timeline of the significant events that happens in the history of special education. It would further discuss the laws associated with Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Furthermore, this paper will address the current and future challenges the laws have on special education.
All children are created differently with different talents and abilities. Some are tall, others are short. Some are big, others are small. Not only are their physical attributes different, but children also adapt to different teaching styles. However, the differences among most students are reasonably minute and it allows for those children to be taught in a general education program. On the other hand, exceptional students differ from the norm and require special individualized attention called special education. Special education pertains to the teaching of students with unique requirements in a way that tackles each student’s individual needs and differences. Although, special education is necessity for disabled children, there have been huge obstacles in the history of special education. For nearly 200 years following the United States being established in 1776, nothing was done to precede the privileges of its exceptional students. Actually, more than 4.5 million students were deprived of a sufficient education. Overall, children with disabilities were denied the right to attend public schools. The children that had mild to moderate disabilities were more likely to dropping out because there was no special individualized teaching that would meet the disabled student’s needs and differences. Therefore, that left parents with disabled children only had two options: to keep their children at home with them or to have them institutionalized. These children were described as incorrigible, backward, steamer children, and truant. By the 1920s some cities, not many, created special classed for