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Civil rights law that prohibits discrimination because of a disability in schools and other entities.
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Law signed by President Gerald Ford, enacted to ensure all handicapped children have access to a just education. This eventually led to IDEA.
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President Ronald Reagan signed into law amendments to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Included a new national agenda to provide more services to special needs children and families.
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Civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life.
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Law that made available a free appropriate public education to children with disabilities, and ensures special education and related services to those children.
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This reauthorization provided expansion of services for disabled students and their families.
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This law authorized federal education programs administered by the states in order to provide all children with fair, equal and significant opportunity to obtain a high level education.
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This act aligned IDEA with No Child Left Behind, and modified the individualized education program as well as evaluation of students with disabilities
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These amendments to ADA expanded statutory interpretation of a disability while providing disabled individuals more protection.
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This law, signed by President Barack Obama, removed the terms "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" from federal health, education, and labor status, and replaced them with "intellectual disability".
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