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Jean-Marc Itard, Edouard Seguin, and Thomas Gallaudent began to teach children with intellectual and developmental delays.
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This council was created with the purpose of helping organize teachers who were working to help students with exceptionalities. [https://www.cec.sped.org/]
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Leo Kanner, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, studied a 5-year-old boy with "unique peculiarities."
[https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism]
[https://www.autism-society.org/]
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Beforehand, students with learning disabilities were labeled with terms like minimal brain dysfunction, Strauss syndrome, and brain injured.
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Authorized funds for training professionals to work with children with special needs and for research and demonstration for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and deafness.
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This legislation states that individuals with disabilities must have equal access to programs and services.
[https://dredf.org/legal-advocacy/laws/section-504-of-the-rehabilitation-act-of-1973/] -
Designed to ensure that all handicapped children have available to them a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and services to meet their unique needs.
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Amendment to the 1975 law to include education and early intervention for children from birth.
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This piece of legislation extends civil rights to persons with disabilities.
[https://dredf.org/legal-advocacy/laws/a-comparison-of-ada-idea-and-section-504/] -
Required schools receiving Title I funds to ensure high-quality instruction for students of all ability levels.
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This legislation was a reauthorization of PL 94-142 designed to strengthen and improve earlier versions. [http://www.cpacinc.org/materials-publications/legal-rights/the-individuals-with-disabilities-education-improvement-act-idea-2004/]
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Appropriates funding for parts B and C of IDEA which ensures that children with disabilities, including children aged three through five, have access to a free appropriate public education to meet each child's unique needs and prepare him or her for further education, employment, and independent living.
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Ensures that all students are provided with a high-quality education and taught to high academic standards that prepare them for college and careers. [https://ec.ncpublicschools.gov/disability-resources/significant-cognitive-disabilities/nc-extended-content-standards/ecselak12final.pdf]