Throughout history families have struggled to find ways to accommodate family members that were born with disabilities. No matter in what era they were born during, people with disabilities have always been discriminated against. Often times people with disabilities were kept isolated and excluded from the general population. During the induction of national educational acts in the early 1900’s children with disabilities were always overlooked.
These children’s only opportunities for care were either at home or to be committed into mental institutional hospitals, providing an education to children with disabilities was unheard of. The quality of life and expectations for children born with disabilities over one hundred years ago are quite different than what is predicted for children born with disabilities today (Martin, Martin & Terman, 1996).
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