Special Education Timeline

  • Council for Exceptional Children

  • Perkins Institution for the Blind

  • Law Mandating Compulsory Education

  • Association of Instructions of the Blind

  • Beattle V. Board of Education

  • Classification of Autism

  • John K. Kennedy - The Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Act

  • Education for all Handicapped Children Act

  • American's with Disabilities

  • Handicapped Children's Protection Act

  • No Child Left Behind Act

  • Ava's Law

    Governor Deal has signed Senate Bill 118, which amends Ava's Law by increasing the limits on the coverage of applied behavior analysis to individuals age twenty and under up to $35,000 per year.