TAMIL NADU TEACHERS EDUCATION UNIVERSITY-B.ED SYLLABUS-SEMESTER IV- ELECTIVE -SPECIAL EDUCATION-UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL EDUCATION PART 1 - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SPECIAL EDUCATION-IT IS VERY USEFUL FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TAKE SPECIAL EDUCATION AS ELECTIVE

1. SPECIAL EDUCATION
Ms R SRIDEVI
Assistant Professor, Pedagogy of Mathematics
Loyola College of Education
Chennai 34
UNIT I
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL EDUCATION
SEMESTER IV
CODE BD1MA

2. • Meaning
• Concept
• Definition
• Principles
• Objectives
• Scope
• Types
• Historical Perspectives in Spl.
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3. HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVES

4. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Pedro Ponce de Leon, in 1500s, set an
example by teaching the art of speaking,
reading, and writing to deaf pupils.

5. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Juan Pablo Bonnet supposedly published
the first book on this matter in 1620 by
listing the method used by Pedro Ponce de
Leon.

6. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 In 1784, Valentin Haüy opened the National
Institution of Blind Youth in Paris with 12
blind pupils.

7. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Scientific attempts to educate and train
children with intellectual disabilities can be
traced back to 1807.

8. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Louis Braille, who was blinded at the
age of three, invented the system in
1824 while a student at the Institution
National des Jeunes Aveugles (National
Institute for Blind Children)

9. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Charles-Michel de l'Épée (French:
[ʃaʁlmiʃɛl dəlepe]; 24 November 1712 –
23 December 1789) was a philanthropic
educator of 18th-century France who
has become known as the "Father of the
Deaf".