Sunday, October 28, 2012
What is Special Education and How did it come about
For my free post this week I thought that I would go over what Special Education actually means and how these classrooms came about. For many, there is a grey area that causes some confusion over what types of cases come through the Special Education classrooms. By definition, Special Education means education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom. Special Education classrooms got started with a man named Louis Braille. He first opened up a school for the blind in Paris to give those that could not see a better opportunity to grow and learn mentally. As more cases began to surface classrooms for the deaf and mentally handicapped children were created. This is how the evolution of sign language came about. As for the education of those with mentally disabilities, those classrooms were started by Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard. The ideas of Mr. Itard then rubbed off on Edouard Seguin and Maria Montessori. To me, the evolution of those specific classrooms is just amazing. Seeing how technology and techniques have advanced gives me hope for a brighter future for these students.
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I never knew that the first special education program classroom was located in Paris. It’s really amazing how ideas can spread so quickly across the world in such a short period of time. It’s hard to imagine what our world would be like without special education programs. There would be so many people missing out on daily activities because they have a special needs. We have come incredibly far in developing and strengthening special education programs. As you have talked about before, we have seen enormous steps in technology and techniques over the past several years. Since we are going to continue to make progress, it makes me excited to see what the future holds for these students.
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