Special Education History: The history of special education is linked to other advocacy movements in the history of the United States.
By violachima
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Supreme Court rules that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
Began the movement of equality in education -
Provide state grants to help expand education programs for students with disabilities
Federal government money was given to schools to help train special education teachers better -
Since segregation was deemed unconstitutional, it also is unconstitutional to deny students with disabilities as education
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Prohibited discrimination against those with disabilities in programs that received federal funding
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Federal funding was provided to those who promised to education students with disabilities
Started requiring schools to develop an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
Established procedural safeguards -
School sued due to interpreter being taken away from deaf student
Court ruled in favor of school because Amy Rowley was succeeding without the interpreter
Case offered a new interpretation of FAPE
Created a definition of FAPE and clarified that students don't have to have maximum support but enough to receive educational benefits -
Added traumatic brain injury and autism as new categories of disability
Transition element for students age 16 or older was added
"People first" language began -
Changed the IEP team and added new components
Reorganized the structure of IDEA
Began requiring states to offer intervention efforts to parents before due process hearings -
Reaction to the low academic achievement of American students
Began holding the government responsible for the gains for students academically
Standardized testing began -
Parents sued school for tuition to a private school because the school was unable to provide a "meaningful education"
Confusion with terminology in courts led to a debate of what schools are required to provide
