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Special Education Timeline

By mcgregor81

  • Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOEX1YnkPFg This landmark case was the origin for FAPE, Free and Appropriate Public Education. In 1975, the consent decree of PARC, the result of this case, was applied at a national level now known as Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) (Fleet, 2014).

  • Board of Education v. Rowley

    Board of Education v. Rowley
    https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/458/176/ This court case found that a Free Appropriate Public Education requires that children with disabilities be given support services to meet their educational needs. However, in this case parents requested that their daughter be given a sign-language instructor, even though she was not falling behind and progressing class to class with ease. The courts upheld that the school district was not required to provide a sign-language instructor.

  • Honig v Doe

    Honig v Doe
    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Honig-v-Doe The Supreme Court ruled that a California school board had violated the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA; later the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) when it indefinitely suspended a student for violent and disruptive behavior that was related to his disability (Steketee, 2016).