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Oldest school for the blind in the United States. They opened with 6 students. Helen Keller is the schools most famous graduate. https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/perkins-school-for-the-blind-incorporated.html
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School where children could learn to speak and read. This is the school for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. There are 4 schools for the speech the Katherine Hamm Center, the Wardlaw School, Stepping Stones Preschool, and the Anne & Jim Kenan Preschool). The school focuses on the construction of the reading brain. https://www.atlantaspeechschool.org/support/1938-circle/
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According to our text, By 1973, "31 similar court cases constituted a groundswell of political activism on behalf of students with disabilities (Taylor & Searle, 1987)." Schools could not violate the fourteenth amendment for students with disabilities. They ruled that the students had the right to attend a free public school
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Amy Rowley was a first grader and hearing impaired. Her parents took the district to due process. They lost the case because Amy was successful in academics and was doing well socially without an interpreter.
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This Act mandates a "free appropriate public education" for each handicapped child. A handicapped boy and his parents said that the school did not obey the Handicapped Act. http://www.kidstogether.org/right-ed_files/daniel.htm
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This Act expanded special education services. They added Autism and Traumatic brain injury categories. Children ages 3-21 are protected by this act. They require written notice to parents about identification and placement. IDEA is the legislative foundation for all services that students with disabilities receive in schools today. https://www.wrightslaw.com/idea/law.htm
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/
