Timeline of Laws- History of Special Education

  • Education for all Handicapped Children Act

    Requires all public schools to accept funds to provide equal access to education for handicapped children.
  • Least Restrictive Environment

    Children who get special education must be included in classrooms with non-disabled children as much as possible.
  • Hudson V Rowley

    States that appropriate education does not necessarily mean that which achieves maximum achievement.
  • The Handicapped Children's Protection Act

  • IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)

    Original act guarantees that children and youth with disabilities have rights to free, appropriate, public education
  • ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)

    Ensures the right to nondiscriminatory treatment in other aspects of life
  • No Child Left Behind

    "Standards based" reform, consequences to special education
  • IDEIA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act)

    Improved version of the originalIDEA. Also maintains that children and youth with disabilities have rights to free, appropriate, public education
  • Assistive Technology Act

    Provides federal funding to support assistive technology to aid students with disabilities.
  • Endrew F

    Supreme court ruled that an educational program must provide more than "de minimus".

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