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Authorized funds for training professionals to work with children with special needs and for research and demonstration for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and deafness
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Individuals with disabilities must have equal access to programs and services.
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Education for All Handicapped Children
Took effect in 1977, was designed "to assure that all handicapped children have available to them a free appropriate public education unique needs" -
Provided that opportunity by allocating federal funds for the states to develop plans and programs for children and their families from birth on.
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Extends the civil rights to persons with disabilities. These rights are guaranteed without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, or religion through the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Has impact on all schoolchildren and a special impact on children with disabilities.
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Reauthorization of public law 94-142. Designed to strengthen and improve earlier versions. Major changes were quality of personnel, IEP Planning, Transition planning.
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Infants and toddlers with disabilities from birth to age 2 received $500 million in federal funds, and children ages 3 to 5 were provided $400 million in federal funds.