Day 40 - CEC Professional Standards
The Council for Exceptional Children first published the Professional Standards for Personnel in Education of Exceptional Children in...
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Day 39 - CEC State Chapters
In 1947 the Council for Exceptional Students authorized the establishment of state chapters of the organization. Today, CEC has a unit in...
Day 38 - Foundation of the Experimental Education Unit
The Experimental Education Unit was founded at the University of Washington as part of the College of Education and the Center for Human...
Day 36 - Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was amended in November of 1966 to include grant programs in special education. This program...
Day 34 - 1965 Medicaid Amendments
Under Title XIX of the the social security act the Medicaid program was enacted to provide health care services to several groups of...
Day 33 - Vocational Rehabilitation Programs at the end of WWI
Today, November 11th, is Veteran’s Day, the anniversary of the end of World War I. Following World War I many injured and disabled...
Day 31 - P.L. 87-276 Teachers of the Deaf Act
Public Law 87-276 was enacted at the federal level in 1961. This act was passed to provide specially trained teachers to students who...
Day 30 - 1958 PL 85 - 926
Public Law 85-926 was passed at the federal level in 1958. This public law encouraged an increase in teachers of students with...
Day 29 - NJ Bills of 1954
In 1954 three bills were passed in the state of New Jersey regarding Special Education. These laws described three categories in which...
Day 28 - Establishment of the ARC
In 1950 parent groups came together to establish The ARC. Originally, the organization was named the National Association of Parents and...
Day 26 - Cornelius E. van Koetsveld
Today, November 4th, is the anniversary of the death of Cornelius E. van Koetsveld. Van Koetsveld established the first private...
Day 25 - NJ Cerebral Palsy League
Parents and other concerned people began to form groups during the 1940s to address the issue of inequality in education for students...
Day 24 - Cuyahoga County Ohio Council for the Retarded Children
The Cuyahoga County Council for the Retarded Children was established in 1933 by parents of children with disabilities. This was a...
Day 22 - Ungraded Magazine
The Ungraded Magazine was first published in May of 1915. The magazine was a professional periodical that published information and...
Day 21 - Farrell's Psycho-Educational Clinic
In 1913 Elizabeth Farrell established her Psycho-Educational Clinic for the purpose of assessing students to correctly place them into...
"It is the boast of Americans that every child has opportunity of school education but it is true that many children- through no fault of their own- get nothing from education. Not education but the right education should be our boast."
- Elizabeth Farrell
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