LEARNING DISABILITIES: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

LEARNING disabilities : HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES . Daniel P. Hallahan, University of Virginia, & Cecil D. Mercer, University of Florida Although the federal government's involvement in LEARNING disabilities through task forces, legislation, and funding has only been evident since the 1960s and 1970s, we can trace LEARNING disabilities ' roots back to at least the early 1800s. Thus, LEARNING disabilities may be one of the newest categories officially recognized by the Department of Education, but the origins of its conceptual foundation are as longstanding, or nearly as longstanding, as many of the other disability categories. We have divided the history of LEARNING disabilities into five periods: European Foundation Period (c. 1800. to 1920); Foundation Period (c. 1920 to 1960); Emergent Period (c. 1960 to 1975); Solidification Period (c. 1975 to 1985); Turbulent Period (c. 1985 to 2000). Others before us (Lerner, 2000; Mercer, 1997; Wiederholt, 1974) have also divided the history into roughly similar EUROPEAN FOUNDATION PERIOD (C.)

LEARNING DISABILITIES: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Daniel P. Hallahan, University of Virginia, & Cecil D. Mercer, University of Florida Although the federal government’s involvement in learning disabilities through task forces, legislation, and

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