Chapter 1 Earliest Provision for the Handicapped; Chapter 2 Eighteenth Century: The First English Schools; Chapter 3 The Period of Experiment: I. Institutional Education of the Blind and Deaf; Chapter 4 The Period of Experiment: II. Methods of Teaching the Blind to Read; Chapter 5 The Period of Experiment: III. Developments in the Education of the Feeble-Minded and Physically Handicapped; Chapter 6 The Period of Transition: I. Changes in the Education of the Blind; Chapter 7 The Period of Transition: II. School Board Classes for the Deaf and Blind; Chapter 8 The Period of Transition: III. The Return of the Oral Education of the Deaf; Chapter 9 The Period of State Intervention: I. The Royal Commission on the Blind and Deaf; Chapter 10 The Period of State Intervention: II. School Board Classes for the Mentally Handicapped; Chapter 11 The Period of State Intervention: III. The DePart mental Committee on Defective and Epileptic Children; Chapter 12 The Period of Growth: I. Advances in the Education of the Physically Handicapped; Chapter 13 The Period of Growth: II. Advances in the Health Services; Chapter 14 The Period of Growth: III. Advances in the Education of the Mentally Handicapped; Chapter 15 The Period of Growth: IV. Advances in the Education of the Blind and Deaf; Chapter 16 The Period of Consolidation: I. The 1944 ACT; Chapter 17 The Period of Consolidation: II. The Present;