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Asperger Syndrome
Hans Asperger in Germany conducted research describing individuals with social, and emotional limitations that also demonstrated withdrawn behavior. Asperger named the condition Aperger’s syndrome.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person within their jurisdictions. The decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal. -
PARC vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens wins against Pennsylvania state, the first right-to-education suit in the country, to overturn that Pennsylvania law and secure a quality education for all children. The state agreed to provide a Free Appropriate Public Education for children with mental retardation. -
The Rehabilitation Act 1973
The Rehabilitation Act prohibits the exclusion of people based on disabilities in program conducted financed, and employed by Federal Government. Section 504 states that "no qualified individual with a disability in the United States shall be excluded from, denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under" any program or activity that either receives Federal financial assistance. -
Specific Learning Disabilities
Specific Learning Disabilities is added as a category on the Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975. Now called the Individual Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), is signed into law. It guarantees a free, appropriate public education for all children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. -
Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act
Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act was signed into law by President Reagan on August 19, 1988. The law provides funding to develop statewide, consumer-responsive information and training programs designed to meet the assistive technology needs of individuals with disabilities of all ages. -
Americans Disabilities Act 1990
Americans Disabilities Act (ADA) ensured the equal treatment and equal access of people with disabilities to employment opportunities and to public accommodations. The ADA was intended to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, services rendered by state and local governments, places of public accommodation, transportation, telecommunications services. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 1990
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. The IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities. -
Telecommunication Act of 1996
Telecommunications Act of 1996: requires telecommunications products (i.e., computers, telephones) and services (closed captioning) to be accessible to people with disabilities. Access is “readily achievable”, meaning easily accomplishable, without much difficulty or expense. -
No Child Left Behind 2001
The NCLB Act, which reauthorizes the ESEA, incorporates the principles and strategies proposed by President Bush. These include increased accountability for States, school districts, and schools; greater choice for parents and students, particularly those attending low performing schools; more flexibility for States and local educational agencies (LEAs) in the use of Federal education dollars;
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