Learning Disability Timeline

1965 - Education Act

1986- EAHCA

1990- Autism Official

2001- SENDA

2004- IDEA & No Child Left Behind

2005- Mental Capacity Act

2007- ADA Legacy Tour

2008- Disability History in West Virginia

2010- Rosa's Law Enacted (link)

2012- First Disability Pride Month Celebration

2019 - Disability Rights Movement

The Learning Disabiliy Timeline

2021 - Inside the History of Learning Disbility

IDEA (2024). A History of the INdaviduals With Disabilities Education Act. Retrieved from https://sites.ed.gov/idea/IDEA-History

Department of Education (2024). Indaviduals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Retrieved from https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/individuals-disabilities/idea

Candace, C. (2006). IDEA Parent Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Rights and Responsibilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004), 1. 1-106. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED495879.pdf

MCA Project. (2016, Dec 6). Inroduction to the Mental Capasity Act [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6gfKGVFCas&t=19s

Disability History Week designated. s18-100-5, H.R. 4491. (2008)

Hoge, W. (2019). The Disabiliy Rights Movement List of Recourses. The Excellence in Education Journal, 8(2). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1228217.pdf

Barden, O. (2021). Inside the History of Learning Disability. Public Disability History. Retrieved from https://www.public-disabilityhistory.org/2021/08/inside-history-of-learning-disability.html

Recourses

My Center for INdependent Living (2023). Pennsylvania Disability Pride Celebrations and Parades This Summer. Retrieved from https://www.mycil.org/pennsylvania-disability-pride-celebrations-and-parades-this-summer/#:~:text=Philadelphia%20celebrates%20disability%20pride%20week%2C%20starting%20June%205,to%20the%20festivities%20at%201600%20Ben%20Franklin%20Parkway.

Swanson, J. & Laviano, J. (2013, Sep 1).The IDEA's SPecial Education Categories: Autism. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lowwt88QZ7M

Special Olympics (2010). Rosa's Law SIgned into Law by President Obama. Retrieved from https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/news/rosas-law-signed-into-law-by-president-obama

Smith, N. Guarino, B. (2008). Road to Freedom. New York Able, 18(8), 1-20. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/gdc/gdceserialspublic/20/21/21/06/21/_2/00/80/1/2021210621_200801/2021210621_200801.pdf

Paul, C. A. (2016). Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Social Welfare History Project. Retrieved from https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/education/elementary-and-secondary-education-act-of-1965/