Persons with disabilities are so different and are constantly faced with challenges since most people do not care about them. That difference denies them access to the education world which is their right. Unfortunately, not all people share the same vision by which people with needs are ostracized. For this matter, supportive and protective measures have been put in place through laws. Legislation and Litigation have provided formal …show more content…
This was highly prevalent in schools which had reached a level of rejected enrollment of disabled people in schools or refusing to set aside educational programs for them. In the past, there were various social attitudes, educational and institutional practices, and state laws promoting the act of excluding disabled children from different educational opportunities. This used to guarantee them lives with no hope of ever being literate. During the start of the 17th and 18th centuries, things changed due to the ability of people to think differently about disabled people. This led to the evolving of different techniques to be used in teaching disabled people, which are still used in today’s modern world. Though several studies show that disabled people could learn, it took different disabled people’s rights advocates a lot of time to convince different educators and their societies that these people could actually learn