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Formal Deaf Education Begins in the U.S. 1815-1817

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Formal Deaf Education Begins in the U.S. 1815-1817

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Thomas H. Gallaudet leaves the United States for Europe in 1815 to learn how to teach the deaf. Upon his return, he founds the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons in Hartford, Connecticut, with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Laurent Clerc. It is the first permanent school for the deaf in America. The opening of its doors, on April 15, 1817, marks the beginning of efforts in America to educate people with disabilities.

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History of deaf education in the United States - Wikipedia

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Braille Invents the Raised Point Alphabet - 1829

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Braille Invents the Raised Point Alphabet - 1829

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Louis Braille was a French Educator who invented a tactile system of reading and writing for the blind and visually impaired in 1824

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Eugenic Sterilization Law for People with Disabilities Enacted - 1907

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Eugenic Sterilization Law for People with Disabilities Enacted - 1907

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A 'eugenic' law permitted involuntary sterilization of people with intellectual disability from 1948–1996. More than 16,500 women and men were sterilized against their will²⁰ during this period.

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Compulsory sterilization of disabled people in the U.S. prison system - Wikipedia

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Person with a Disability, Elected President - 1932

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Person with a Disability, Elected President - 1932

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Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president of the United States and is re-elected for an unprecedented four terms. In August 1921, while vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Roosevelt contracted an illness, believed to be polio, which resulted in total and permanent paralysis from the waist down. After becoming President, he supports the founding of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now known as the March of Dimes). In recognition of his support of this organization, FDR is commemorated on the dime.

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Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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National Federation of the Blind Founded 1934

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National Federation of the Blind Founded 1934

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At the age of 23, Jacobus tenBroek, blind from the age of 14, joins with Dr. Newel Perry and others to form the California Council of the Blind (later renamed later the National Federation of the Blind of California). This becomes a model for the national organization he forms six years later.

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National Federation of the Blind - Wikipedia

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Social Security Act Signed into Law - 1935

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Social Security Act Signed into Law - 1935

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, establishing a program of permanent assistance for adults with disabilities.

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History of Social Security in the United States - Wikipedia

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Nazi Program Kills Thousands of People with Disabilities - 1939

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Nazi Program Kills Thousands of People with Disabilities - 1939

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At the onset of World War II Adolph Hitler orders widespread "mercy killing" of the sick and disabled.* Code-named Aktion T4, the Nazi euthanasia program is instituted to eliminate "life unworthy of life." Between 75,000 to 250,000 people with intellectual or physical disabilities are systematically killed from 1939 to 1941.

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School segregation is abolished, and public schools are given permission to educate children with significant intellectual disabilities.

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National Mental Health Foundation Founded - 1946

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National Mental Health Foundation Founded - 1946

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The National Mental Health Foundation is founded by American conscientious objectors from WWII who served as attendants at state mental institutions rather than serving in the war. The Foundation exposes the abusive conditions at these facilities and becomes an impetus toward deinstitutionalization.

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Ed Roberts Fights for Admission to University, starting the Independent Living Movement - 1962

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Ed Roberts Fights for Admission to University, starting the Independent Living Movement - 1962

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Ed Roberts, a young man with polio, enrolls at the University of California, Berkeley. After his admission is rejected, he fights to get the decision overturned. His advocacy, along with that of Judy Huemann, inspires the Independent Living Movement and helps establish the first Center for Independent Living (CIL).