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No individual can be excluded solely because of their disability, from participating in any program that is receiving federal funding. This Act covers the entire lifespan not just school years.
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"Bill of Rights" for children with exceptionalities and their families. All handicapped students have free public education available to them and services to meet their needs and are protected.
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Early interventions services for infants and toddlers (birth-2) with developmental delays or disabilities. Individualize family service plan (IFSP) established. Mandated services for preschoolers with disabilities.
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Eliminates discrimination against people with disabilities in public and private places. Expanded definition to AIDS, substance abuse issues, and also impairments that limit major life activity. Employers, major transits, and companies must make reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities.
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Autism and TBI identified as discrete disabilities. Rehabilitation counseling and social work considered related services. Requirement of individualized transition plan by age 16.
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Supports inclusion and transition for students with disabilities. Includes meditation procedures, orientation, and mobility services. New performance goals and changes in federal funding
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All students, including students in special education are expected to show proficiency in mathematics, reading, and science. This is to show commitment to educational reform and accountability. There was more public access to school's performance on tests and more qualified teachers.
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Special Education services were aligned with national schools improvement efforts. Started to identify learning disabilities through response to intervention. Simply improving the quality and performance of SPED.
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Expanded protections to a wider variety of people with disabilities. So those whose lives that are also impacted with doing life activities such as reading, thinking, concentrating or bodily functions such as immune or neurological.
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This act focuses on accountability, high standards, and student achievement. By doing this they are having statewide accountability, no requirements on a state adopting Common Core, eliminates the "highly qualified" teacher status, universal teaching and accommodations.
