History of Disabled Education

Over the past century, we as a society have had many views about people with disabilities. We have held many misconceptions, generalizations and stereotyped the disabled community. Although it is illogical, we have often grouped and assumed that all disabled people are at the same impairment level. It was not until later in the 1980's and 1990's that people with disabilities were recognized with different need levels and different types of disabilities that we could adapt services for.
Early in the 1900's disabled people and people with differences were exploited by the public's curiosity about the unusual. People with disabilities were sensationalized in the carnival culture as human exhibits and their differences were capitalized on as income. People with disabilities were not considered competent enough to be a part of society. They were excluded from "normal" society and kept with their own kind. Any normal accomplishments made by people with disabilities were flaunted a...