Special Education/Disability

By lsjarvis

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education made it so students could not be segregated by race in schools. This would open the door for more acts to be passed that helped other students, such as ones with disabilities.

  • Celtics win 1st title

  • Moon Landing

  • First Woodstock Festival

    Woodstock is a music festival held in New York.

  • Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    This case was pivotal because the ruling was in favor of the students with learning disabilities. This made it so students with disabilities got the proper help they needed for their education.

  • Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia

    This made it illegal for the D.C. Board of Education to deny "exceptional" students to public-funded educational activities.

  • Education for All Handicapped Children Act

    This act was signed by President Gerald Ford and said schools that take money from the federal government had to give an equal education to students with disabilities. This act also gave these students one free meal a day.

  • Public Law 99-457

    This is an amendment to the All Handicapped Children Act. This made it so states had to give resources to families that had a child with a disability when before this the help would not come until the age of 3.

  • Tom Brady's birthday

  • Handicapped Children’s Protection Act

    This act was signed by Regan and gave the parents of students with disabilities more say in their child's IEP. This is important because it can be assumed the parents know more about what their child needs than someone who has not known the child for a long period.

  • Public Law 101-476

    This law made changes to Public Law 94-142. Traumatic brain injuries and autism were both added as separate categories.

  • Jerry Garcia's death

  • Disabilities Education Act

    This added amendments to the Education for all Handicapped Children’s Act. Two amendments were that the curriculum would be the same for all students, and "developmental delay" was changed from 0-5 years to 9.