Great Lakes Quality Improvement Center for Disabilities Records, 1992-2002 | University of Illinois Archives

Special education was informally administered in the College of Education until October 1962, when the Department of Special Education was established.¹

Precise Early Education of Children with Handicaps (PEECH) Project:

The project was established in 1970 as a model program for the early education of the multiple-handicapped. It is a INT project of the Department of Special Education, Urbana Community School District 116 and the Illinois Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.²

1. Transactions of the Board of Trustees, 52nd Report, October 17, 1962, pp. 181-182.

2. Office of Professor Merle B. Karnes. Contract signed 1970 with Bureau of Ed. Handicapped, IL Office of Sup. of Pub. Instruction. Funding started 7/1/70, classroom work, 8/70. Contract ran for three years as a classroom demonstration project. Subsequent contract for dissemination project, through 1975.