Address of the Trustees
Address of the Trustees

Author: Perkins School for the Blind

Publisher:

Published: 1876

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13:

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Reports for 1886/87-1905/06 include Report of the Kindergarten for the Blind covering the same period.

Education and the Handicapped 1760 - 1960
Education and the Handicapped 1760 - 1960

Author: D.G. Pritchard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1136270280

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First published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. During the nineteenth century and part of the twentieth the children now known as disabled or with accessibility needs were termed physically defective and mentally defective; the schools that they and the blind and the deaf attended were frequently called institutions; the education they received bore the name of instruction. This book is the story of the advance in opinion and outlook from 1760 to 1960, which brought about the change from instruction to education, from institution to school, and from mentally defective to those with special needs, that the book sets out to tell. Written in 1963.

A History of Childhood and Disability
A History of Childhood and Disability

Author: Philip L. Safford

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780807734858

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In their chronological portrait, the authors synthesize the many voices of exceptional children, providing a historical picture that includes not only the perspective of the professional, but also, to the extent possible, that of the "client." The book begins by placing the origins of special education in historical context from Aristotle through the Enlightenment and beyond. Subsequent chapters consider individual "conditions" traditionally associated with specialized approaches (e.g., blindness, deafness, and retardation), discuss conditions that have given rise to further differentiation of childhood exceptionality, and offer a synthesis of themes and a prospective for a "new history," now emerging, of children considered exceptional.