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Vineland Training School Open
The Vineland Training School in NJ was one of the 1st schools that specialized in the education of children with intellectual disabilities.
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Creation of Department of Special Education
Created by the National Education Association. The Department of Special Education ensured that those with disabilities had their right to education. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Even though this case was about race segregation it helped pave the ideda that separate educational classrooms are NOT equal -
Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act
A law that protects people with disabilities. Workers and employers are not allowed to exclude or deny equal opportunity to those with disabilities. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/civilrights/resources/factsheets/504.pdf -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA)
Now known as IDEA, this law states that ALL children with disabilities have access to free public education tailored to their needs. -
Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley
Amy is a hearing-impaired young girl who was denied an interpreter because the teacher said she was doing perfectly fine with her lip reading. This was not following the EHA -
Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
EHA was renamed IDEA and with this change, they added traumatic brain injury and autism and they changed the IEP transition age https://youtu.be/C1-dS1uM6DU?si=UKTJl_I-iaata96E -
Americans with Disabilities Act
A law that was signed by President Bush that prohibits discrimination against those with disabilities at work, transportation, public, government, and housing. Equal opportunity for all. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This law held schools accountable for how kids learned and achieved monitored through test scores. If test scores were not improving the government removed funding -
Every Student Succeeds Act
Replaced No Child Left Behind, but it was the same all students must be held to high academic standards. https://youtu.be/tTo-sfxIEFk?si=Ub1JShEXoQGQIHle