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Provided funds for training professionals to train teachers of children with intellectual disabilities
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Provided funds for training professionals to train teachers of deaf children
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Extended support given in PL 85-926 to training teachers of children with other disabilities
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Provided money to states and local districts for developing programs for children with disabilities and economic disadvantages
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Provided funding for state-supported programs in institutions and other settings for children with disabilities
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Created the federal Bureau of Education for the Handicapped
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Established the "first chance network" of experimental programs for preschool children with disabilities
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Defined learning disabilities and provided funds for state-level programs for children with learning disabilities
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Mandated a study of the gifted that resulted in the Marland Report, which many states used as a basis for building programs for gifted and talented students
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Declared that a person cannot be excluded on the basis of disability alone from any program or activity receiving federal funds