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Rehabilitation Act, Section 504
Civil rights law that prohibits discrimination because of a disability in schools and other entities. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Law signed by President Gerald Ford, enacted to ensure all handicapped children have access to a just education. This eventually led to IDEA. -
Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments
President Ronald Reagan signed into law amendments to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Included a new national agenda to provide more services to special needs children and families. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
Civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Law that made available a free appropriate public education to children with disabilities, and ensures special education and related services to those children. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments
This reauthorization provided expansion of services for disabled students and their families. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This law authorized federal education programs administered by the states in order to provide all children with fair, equal and significant opportunity to obtain a high level education. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
This act aligned IDEA with No Child Left Behind, and modified the individualized education program as well as evaluation of students with disabilities -
Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments
These amendments to ADA expanded statutory interpretation of a disability while providing disabled individuals more protection. -
Rosa's Law
This law, signed by President Barack Obama, removed the terms "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" from federal health, education, and labor status, and replaced them with "intellectual disability".
