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Father of Special Education works with "wild child" Victor using explicit teaching methods that are still used today.
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Edouard Seguin brings Dr. Itard's teachings to America in an effort to educate those with disabilities.
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the basis for future rulings that children with disabilities cannot be excluded from school.
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Senator at the time, JFK visited Willowbrook and ended up calling it a "snake pit."
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In the state of Pennsylvania no child with intellectual disabilities can be denied a public education.
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All students with disabilities have a right to a free public education.
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Conditions for those at the Willowbrook institution for children and adults with disabilities are exposed by Geraldo Rivera.
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Required accommodations in schools and society for those with disabilities.
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Prior to this law, students with disabilities had been denied access to public education.
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA), guaranteed a FAPE in the LRE.
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The state of New York announced plans to close Willowbrook, which had been renamed the Staten Island Developmental Center in 1974.
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The number of residents housed at Willowbrook had dwindled to 250.
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EHA Reauthorized, added infant and toddlers and provided an IFSP
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The last children left the grounds.
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Changing of EHA to the name of IDEA. Added individualized transition plans, added autism and traumatic brain injury as categories.
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), barred discrimination in employement, transportation, public accomadations, and telecomunications.
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required all students with disabilities have access to the general education curicculum and its accountability systems.
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ESEA or NCLB required that all schoolchildren participate in state and district testing.
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Emphasized that teachers should apply evidence-based interventions.
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Provided support for school-to-work transition projects. Continued a national website on AT. Assisted states in creating and supporting device loan programs, financial loans to individuals to purchase AT devices, and equipment demonstartions.
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Restored workplace protection diminshed by previous court decisions.
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Changed the terms mental "retardation" to intellectual disabilities and intellectually disabled in federal laws.
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Prohibited exclusion for preexisting conditions; eliminated caps on benefits and; prohinbited descrimination based on disability and health status.
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Allocated funding to states to serve infants and toddlers through age 2 with developmental delays or who have physical or mental conditions that result in developmental delays, and ensured early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities birth through age 2.
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61.8% of all students with disabilities received at least 80% of their education at local public schools in general education classrooms.
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Studentd with disabilities recieve a regular high school diploma if they recieved a standards-based curricular education.