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Samuel Gridley Howe opened the first residential school for students who were visually impaired. The curriculum at Perkins School for the Blind focused on instruction in reading, writing, and math and the development of students’ interests and abilities. -
Brown v. Board of Education was the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools. While this case did not deal directly with Special Education, it helped to set the foundations for equality in schools. It helped to pave the way for Special Education advocate for student rights in public education. -
In this court case, PARC challenged the state of Pennsylvania on laws stating schools could deny education to children who were not the mental age of five, or the average intelligence of people aged five, by the time they begin first grade.The court ruled in the favor of PARC and stated that schools could not deny children education based on developmental disabilities. -
This act is a national law that protects qualified individuals from discrimination based on their disability. The nondiscrimination requirements of the law apply to employers and organizations that receive federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education. -
FERPA provides parents with privacy protections for students records in school. It also helps to protect the privacy of students who are receiving special education and related services -
Federal law that gave students with disabilities the right to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). It was put in place by President Ford. -
Th first special education case decided by the Supreme Court. The Court held that an IEP must be reasonably calculated for a child to receive educational benefit, but the school district is not required to provide every service necessary to maximize a child’s potential. -
ADA provides individuals with disabilities protections of civil rights in the specific areas of employment, transportation, public accommodations, state and local government, and telecommunications. -
IDEA was enacted to replace Education for All Handicapped Children Act. This federal law requires FAPE to be provided for every child in order to receive funds under the act. -
IDEIA is the reauthorization of IDEA and continued to give access to FAPE for children with disabilities. This reauthorization was to change the laws language that perviously influenced teachers to misidentify African-American students as having learning disabilities. As well as to align the original law with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.