INED 4435 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Samuel Gridley Howe, Mason Fitch Cogswell
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Bancroft began as a teacher who emphasized individuality of education. She designed an individual program for each student, and she was especially interested in the education of students with developmental or intellectual disabilities. She fought for the rights of people with disabilities are served as the president of the special education section of the national education association (nea). H(cid:396)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)"s siste(cid:396), rose(cid:373)a(cid:396)y, suffe(cid:396)ed f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal illness, which may have led to an interest in helping people with disabilities. Shriver helped found the national institute of child health and human development (nichd) which provides funding to hundreds of organizations that help children and adults. In 1968, shriver helped nationalize the special olympics movement, which is now the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld"s la(cid:396)gest spo(cid:396)ts o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) fo(cid:396) people (cid:449)ith disa(cid:271)ilities. Nichd was renamed the eunice kennedy shriver nichd. (11) 1817: connecticut asylum for the education and instruction of the deaf and dumb. This was the first school in the us dedicated to the teaching of deaf students.