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National Defense Education Act
Provided funds for training professionals to train teachers of children with intellectual disabilities -
Special Education Act
Provided funds for training professionals to train teachers of deaf children -
Menatal Retardation Facility and Community Center Construction Act
Extended support given in PL 85-926 to training teachers of children with other disabilities -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Provided money to states and local districts for developing programs for children with disabilities and economic disadvantages -
Amendment to Title 1 of the Elemtary and Secondary Education Act
Provided funding for state-supported programs in institutions and other settings for children with disabilities -
Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Created the federal Bureau of Education for the Handicapped -
Handicapped Childrens Early Assistance Act
Established the "first chance network" of experimental programs for preschool children with disabilities -
Elemtray, Secondary, and Other Educational Amendment
Defined learning disabilities and provided funds for state-level programs for children with learning disabilities -
Education Amendment of 1970
Mandated a study of the gifted that resulted in the Marland Report, which many states used as a basis for building programs for gifted and talented students -
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Declared that a person cannot be excluded on the basis of disability alone from any program or activity receiving federal funds