So, what is special education? And what makes it so specific and however so complicated and controversial often? Properly, special education, as its title suggests, is just a specific branch of education. It states its lineage to such persons as Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard (1775-1838), the doctor who "tamed" the "crazy child of Aveyron," and Anne Sullivan Macy (1866-1936), the instructor who "labored miracles" with Helen Keller.

Special educators teach students who have physical, cognitive, language, understanding, sensory, and/or mental abilities that deviate from these of the overall population. Special teachers provide training particularly tailored to generally meet individualized needs. These educators fundamentally make education more available and available to students who otherwise would have limited use of training because of whatever disability they're striving with.

It's not just the teachers though who play a role in the real history of specific training in this country. Physicians and clergy, including Itard- mentioned above, Edouard O. Seguin (1812-1880), Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876), and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851), wanted to ameliorate the neglectful, often violent therapy of an individual with disabilities. However, knowledge in this country was, more often than not, very neglectful and abusive when dealing with students that are various somehow.

There is actually an abundant literature within our nation that describes the procedure provided to people who have disabilities in the 1800s and early 1900s. However, in these experiences, in addition to in real life, the portion of our population with disabilities were frequently restricted in jails and almshouses without decent food, apparel, personal hygiene, and exercise.

For a typical example of this different treatment within our literature one needs to appear no longer than Little Tim in Charles Dickens' A Xmas Carol (1843). Furthermore, often times people who have disabilities were often portrayed as villains, such as for example in the book Leader Catch in J.M. Barrie's "Philip Pan" in 1911. business