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American School for the Deaf
American School for the Deaf The first school for students who are deaf, the American School for the Deaf, was founded in 1817 in Connecticut. -
Perkins School for the Blind
Perkins School for the Blind The first school for the blind was founded in 1829 in Boston. It was named Perkins School for the Blind. -
Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Brown vs. Board of Education African American parents had been challenging the practice of racial segregation in public schools in many states across the country. There were 11 cases in Kansas alone. -
Development of Special Education
Development of Special Education
Until the 1970's, children with disabilities were often excluded from schools. -
PARC vs. Commonwealth of Pennslyvania
PARC Before 1971, there was no legal mandate to provide youth with with intellectual disabiities or brain injury access to public education. If those youth were provided the opportunity to attend school with their nondisabled peers, it was based on the school's or district's willingness to do so. -
Mills vs. Board Education of the District of Columbia
Mills vs. BOE Peter Mills was a 12 year old boy, at Junior Village orphanage in the District of Columbia. Peter was removed because of behavior problems in 1971. Peter was one of seven children who had faced very similiar problems to this in 1971. By 1972 the court case was in effect and their advocates had had enough. -
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
After the decision of PARC vs Pennslyvania (1971) and Mills vs. The Board of Education came the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 required all agencies that accepted federal funding to provide equal opportunities to persons with disabilities. Section 504 became known as the field of special education. -
Public Law 94-142: Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975
Public Law 94-142 In 1975, more than 8 million kids in the U.S had disabilities. They were not recieving the proper educational services. Some of them were even being completely excluded from schooling It was in the national interest to pass federal legislation that standardized specific procedures to qualify students for specialized services and evaluate their needs. This is when EHC comes in. -
Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District, Weschester County,New York v. Amy Rowley (1982)
BOE vs. Hendrick In 1982, 7 years after EHC passed, the Rowley case took place. Amy Rowley was a student at the Furnance Woods Elementary who was deaf and expected to read lips in the classroom. Amys parents chose for her to attend the local elementary school. The school denied some requests from Amys family for her special needs. -
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
ADA The passing of the ADA gave "civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similiar to those provided to individuals on the basics of race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion". -
Oberti vs. The Board of Education (1993)
Oberti vs. BOE Raphael Oberti was a child with down syndrome that is from the Clementon School District in New Jersey. The school district did not have the funds for the special needs Raphael would need, they promised to find another school district for the down syndrome child but did not put any efforts in. -
Cedar Rapids Community School District vs. Garret F.
Cedar Rapids vs. Garret This is also another case of the school not having the correct needs for the child and denying the special requests needed for the childs education. -
Individuals with Disabilitites Education Act (IDEA) of 1990 and the Reauthorizations of 1997 and 2004
IDEA IDEA has been reauthorized three times since it was first passed as Public Law 94-142: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHC) in 1975. Each reauthorization has revised for added components in an attempt to improve educational expieriences for students with disabilities and provide more comprehensive, yet standardized, procedures and documentation.
