Education for All Handicapped Children Act

4th Century B.C. Philosophers like Aristotle felt that children with physical disabilities were not meant to live. "As to the exposure and rearing of children, let there be a law that no deformed child shall live...” -Aristotle Early Greek and Romans discouraged the reproduction of people with genetic defects so as to improve the human species. Early Civilizations viewed “deformed children” as a weakness, shame and a burden on society (such views continued to the 20th Century) Up to 1950…

Special education refers to the practice of educating students with special needs due to their physical disabilities, or learning difficulties. These disabilities include autism, speech impairment, development delay, vision impairment, and orthopedic impairment among others. Such students have special requirements which are difficult to be achieved within the normal classroom environment. The advancement seen in the sector of special education cannot be discussed without mentioning the main law,…

the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. It ruled that under the Education for all Handicapped Children Act; now known as IDEA, school boards were required to provide special education services regardless of how big or little the disability is. This case is centered on Timothy W. Timothy was born two months early and shortly after suffered respiratory problems. He suffered many problems after that which left him a multiply handicapped and intellectually disabled child with…

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides children with disabilities an education suitable for their age as well as their individual needs. (“Individuals with Disabilities,” n.d.). Although IDEA provides academic support for children with special needs, additionally IDEA incidentally provides support for those children socially. IDEA is crucial in all areas of development for a child with special needs. Preliminary to IDEA there was no existing policy addressing students…

and the discrimination faced by homosexuals in Uganda. All three of these examples are not widely taught in standard curriculums, yet the pain and suffering faced by the individuals in these groups still resonate into modern times as these groups…

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson introduced the Separate-but-Equal doctrine. This doctrine established that African Americans could constitutionally be kept in separate facilities as long as they were equal. The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racially separated schools were fundamentally unequal. Therefore, the Brown decision was significant to civil rights because it gave a legal rationale to challenge all forms of segregation, led…

Historically, the education of students with disabilities has progressed from neglect, to institutions, to pullout programs and mainstreaming and is continuing in the direction of full inclusion for all students with disabilities (Bradely, Sears & Switlick, 1997). The shift in educating students with disabilities is a direct result of various court cases and legislative decisions such as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. Since the enactment of the Education for All…

that allowed public schools to deny education to certain children. Those children that had not “attained a mental age of 5 years”. This law had been consistently used by the state to deny education to students considered too burdensome to integrate into school and classroom environments. PARC was the first significant challenge to laws around the country prohibiting or excluding students with mental disabilities from attending school alongside other children or even in special programs…

Special education has come a long way since 1817 when the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb persons opened in Hartford CT. (SPED Book pg8) There have been many positive changes to special education since then, many trials and tribulations many parents and educators in need of answers and help. Now almost 200 years later there are many barriers broken and more to be tackled. Special education is always and forever changing with time and knowledge. We will…

into the 1972 Rehabilitation Act. In 1973, the Rehabilitation Act was passed. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 gave meet chance to occupation inside the government and in governmentally subsidized projects, denying segregation on the premise of either physical or mental inability. In 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed to guarantee equal access to public education for children with disabilities. The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was renamed in 1990 to the…