Today's Child Tommorow's Citizen

By jemimazw

  • ARC Formed

    The National Association for Retarded Children (now know as ARC) formed

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education, ruled that seperate but equal facilities for blacks and whites were inherently unequal. Paved the way for rights for children with disabilities to be educated alongside their nondisabled peers

  • Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963

    Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963 signed by President Kennedy

  • Civil Rights Act Passed

    Civil Rights Act passed outlawing discrimination on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and creed. Gender and disability would later be added

  • ESEA of 1965

    Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who believed that "full educational opportunity" should be "our first national goal."

  • Smiles on Parents Faces of Disabled Children Education for all Handicapped Children Act

    In protecting the Rights and meeting the individual needs of students with disibilities, specific mandates were included to identify how the disabled students were identified and educated to evaluate the efforts and provide due process

  • Wyatt v. Stickney

    The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama decided in Wyatt v. Stickney that people in residential state schools and institutions have a constitutional right “to receive such individual treatment as (would) give them a realistic opportunity to be cured or to improve his or her mental condition.” Disabled people were longer to be locked away in institutions without treatment or education.

  • Today's Child Tommorow's Citizen

    Timeline

  • Before 1975

    Access to an appropriate education was denied for most students with disibilities

  • Public Law 94-142 Education for All Handicapped Children Act

    National Mission to provide a free, appropriate public education for all children with disibilities in the least restrictive environment
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    Equality for People with Disibilities

  • Reauthorized Law As IDEA Individal with Disibilities Educatioanal Act( IDEA)

    Reaffirming the requirements for a free, appropriate public education and strengthening the laws and commitment for greater inclusion, greater commitment to community schools and greater education in the classroom.

  • Admendment to the Education of All handicapped Children Act Authororized Programs

    Authorized programs for identifying Early information with infants and toddlers with disibilities.

  • Admendments Broadened Phisical Access Include General Education Curr.

    The focus must be on instruction that uses individualized approaches for accessing the general educators curriculum. Students with disibilities to be educated to the maximum extent possible alongside their non disabled classmates

  • Admendment to IDEA

    State and local accountability increased to educating students with disibilities. Mandates that all students be included in all state accountability programs. Requires teachers to be highly qualified to work with students with special needs in order to reduce the number of students in special needs programs. The number was becoming disproportionate for minorities. Methods expanded for identifying students with specific learning disibilities in school.