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two doctors considered the first individuals to attempt to teach individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
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founded to organize teachers working with exceptional children
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Certain states like California and Illinois begin creating specific classrooms for students with disabilities
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Authorized funds for training professionals to work with children with special needs and for research purposes.
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Set up federally funded, early intervention programs, the most well known being Headstart.
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Judicial president for "ALL children have the right to a free and public education"
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Legislative precedent for handicapped children act of 1975. This act prevents discrimination on the basis of disability in federally funded programs.
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act passed. This piece of legislation ensured free and appropriate public education for all children.
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Children should not be labeled “handicapped” or placed into special education without adequate diagnosis that takes into account different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This would aid in the confusion between ESL and students with learning or intellectual disabilities.
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"A child with disabilities is entitled to an appropriate, not an optimum, education." This interpretation shows a major setback in terms of judicial activism for students with disabilities.
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Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1986, extension of previous laws to give resources from birth onward
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Extension of Civil Rights to include persons with disabilities
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In an attempt to restimulate the economy and federal programs, this act was passed to provide funds to the states under IDEA on a one time basis to improve the delivery of quality of early intervention services.
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ESSA demands that states improve student performance and prepare ALL students for college and careers, meaning content should be altered but no diminished for students with disabilities.
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small funds given towards researching students who were academically gifted and economically disadvantaged, from culturally or linguistically different backgrounds, and those labeled twice exceptional.