Summary
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By examining related disciplines, Farrell provides a road map for special education and considers how special education can be better understood.
Historical Dimensions
Historical Dimensions
Introduction
This chapter examines current issues that have an important historical dimension. These are changes in terminology; the notion of special education as progress; the motives of special educators; and forms of communication in the education of deaf children. The chapter also outlines the milestones in the history of special education, particularly in England.
Issues in Special Education
Changes in Terminology
The terminology that was current in earlier centuries now seems archaic and even offensive if it is not understood in the context of the times in which it was used. Institutions for the blind provided for those who were ‘industrious’, as in the Asylum for the Industrious Blind which opened in Edinburgh in 1765, or those who were poor and needy, as in the Schools ...
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