The History of Special Education: From Isolation to Integration

Contents

Contents List of Tables vii List of Boxes viii Preface xi Part 1 Lessons of a Dark Past Introduction 3 Chapter 1 Disability and Society before the Eighteenth Century: Dread and Despair 6 Chapter 2 Education and Enlightenment: New Views and New Methods 38 Part 2 Into the Light of a More Modern World Introduction 77 Chapter 3 The Rise of Institutions, Asylums, and Public Charities 82 Chapter 4 Education for Exceptional Students in North America after 1850 121 Chapter 5 Physicians, Pedagogues, and Pupils: Defining the Institutional Population 145 Chapter 6 More Than Three Rs: Life in Nineteenth-Century Institutions 170 Chapter 7 Teaching Exceptional Students in the Nineteenth Century 225 vi Part 3 Into the New Century Introduction 251 Chapter 8 Measures and Mismeasures: The IQ Myth 254 Chapter 9 The "Threat of the Feebleminded" 279 Chapter 10 From Isolation to Segregation: The Emergence of Special Classes 312 Chapter 11 New Categories, New Labels 337 Part 4 Segregation to Integration Introduction 363 Chapter 12 Approaching Integration 366 Bibliography 386 Index 441 Contents ...