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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
This act is an initiative for low-income families. It applies to children who need to support to benefit from public school education. -
Vocational Rehabilitation Act
Defined handicapped person and appropriate education. This prohibits discrimination in federally funded programs. -
Educational Amendments Act
State funding for students with disabilities and students who are gifted and/or talented. Due process rights for students and families. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Requires free and appropriate education for students with disabilities (ages 5-18). For IEP's, it defines least restrictive environment.
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Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments
Extends free and appropriate education
to children with disabilities (ages 3-5).
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Americans with Disabilities Act
Prohibits discrimination in the private
sector and protects equal employments
opportunities for people with disabilities. This includes AIDS as a disability. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Replaces EAHCA, establishes person-
first language, expands special education
services and provisions for due process
and confidentiality, adds autism and
traumatic brain injury categories,
provides bilingual education, requires
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Requires students with disabilities to receive services even if expelled. allows use of developmental delay category through age 9, requires access to general education curriculum and state/district-wide testing. IEP team includes a general education teacher and a behavior plan (if warranted), offers mediation options, limits attorneys fees. -
No Child Left Behind Act
Increases accountability and flexibility in use of federal funds. Also offers school choice options, implements early
reading interventions.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
Allows RTI model to determine presence of a learning
disability and no longer requires use of the severe
discrepancy model. It increases funding to early intervention services for students who do not require special education, eliminates IEP short-term objectives for some students. This also raises special education licensure standards, adopts polices to prevent over-representation of minority students in special
education.