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Exclusions of Children with Disability
Exclusions of Children with Disabilities basically means that there has been laws and acts passed that allow the segregation or exclusion of any child with learning disabilities. Some of these acts have age limits, but overall still segregation of children. -
The White House Conference
One goal of the conference was to define and establish remedial programs for children with disabilities or special needs. -
Compulsory Education Law
The compulsory education law was the first law that required children to attend and stay in school. https://hslda.org/content/docs/nche/Issues/S/State_Compulsory_Attendance.asp -
Advocacy Groups
The first advocacy group was started by five mothers in 1933 and slowly more advocacy groups popped up all around the nation. This lead to groups like CEC and TASH that would help fight the education systems and give children with disabilities a fair chance at education. -
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement lead to the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that help end segregation and a step closer to the understanding that education is important to all. -
PARC
PARC states that students from ages six to twenty-one should have equal protection of the Law and the state must provide them a free public education. https://www.rootedinrights.org/15321-revision-v1/ -
Section 504
The primary purpose of section 504 is to prohibit discrimination against a person with a disability by any agency receiving federal funds, these places are public schools and government funded buildings. -
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (EAHCA)
While this act was being passed it focused on mandating a free appropriate public education be available to all students with disabilities by 1976. -
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Education For All (EAHCA and IDEA)
This time frame is a major stepping stone(s) for special education because it forged the intervention programs used to help all individuals with disability. https://www2.ed.gov/policy/speced/leg/idea/history.html
