This week our focus was on special education law!
I want to focus primarily on the history of special education however because it was just the most interesting part of this week's lesson. Here are the brief main points that I gathered:
- Before 1800--->1950
- Special needs cases were a sort of Agrarian society
- People were locked up at home if the were mentally ill
- Placed in poor houses or abandoned on the streets sometimes
- Towns would even cart the disabled to neighboring towns to get rid of them.
- Rise of institutions
- Separation into groups
- Blind & deaf training schools--->Created to train or correct or "cure" problems with mentally handicapped people
- Asylums
- Was seen as a level of protection from others who might do them harm or be overly critical of them, as well as for others to be safe from them as well
- Deinstitutionalized
- Driven by law suits
- Care for & process of how varied from state to state
- Sometimes people after leaving the institutions were placed in group homes
- Some stayed in shelters and community facilities
- Many were left out on the streets and eventually became homeless
Here are just some of the many points that I gathered from this week. Hopefully you learned something new:)
Have a splendid week!! Stay sane!!
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