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History of Special Education Law

Molly Hutto

Education for All Handicapped Children Act 1975

1975

Provides free and appropriate education to all students (FAPE)

- Ages 3-21

Regardless of type of severity of disability

What is this Act?

Educates students with disabilities with peers

- provide procedural safeguards

Why?

Result of lobbying from parents and deinstitutionalization advocates.

Why?

1986

infants and Toddlers with Disabilities Act 1986

What is this act?

-procedural safeguards extended to birth to five years of age

- early intervention for children at risk

- included provision for individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs)

Why?

- To provide early intervention services to children with developmental disabilities

Regular Education Initiative 1986

Eliminating separate special education programs and creating one system of general education in which students with disabilities were to be supported within general education classrooms.

1986

Issued by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)

A shift from Mainstreaming to inclusion

1990

Americans with Disabilities Act 1990

What is this act?

This act gave people with disabilities physical access to all public facilities, and transportation access,This act also made employers make reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. .

What is this act?

Why?

The purpose of the law is to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.

Why?

1990

Americans with Disabilities Education Act 1990

What is this act?

- Changed title from Education for all handicapped children act

- includes first person language

- The word handicapped removed and replaced with disability

- included individuals birth to 5 years old

- The word handicapped removed and replaced with disability

- included individuals birth to 5 years old.

Why?

Why?

To assure that the rights of children with disabilities and their parent are protected,

Why?

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (Amendments) 1997

1997

- Recognized that students with disabilities spent the

majority of their day in the general education setting

- General education teachers must be present at IEP

meetings

- Students with disabilities should be assessed like

their peers (local and state assessments)

1) Same assessment

2) Alternative instrument

Why?

The primary motive for its enactment was the fact that children with disabilities often failed to receive an education or received an inappropriate education

2001

No Child Left Behind 2001

- Highly qualified teachers

- RTI

What is included in this act?

- Holds schools accountable for ALL students

- Accountability through assessment

Why?

- address the concern that the American education system was lagging behind its international competitors by holding schools responsible for boosting student performance

2004

Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement 2004

Why?

- ensures that all children with disabilities are entitled to a free appropriate public education to meet their unique needs and prepare them for further education, employment and independent living.

What is this act?

- mandates equity, accountability and excellence in education for children with disabilities.

- re-authorization of IDEA 197

- correlated with no child left behind act of 2001

- teachers must be highly qualified in core academic subject

Key Events

Re-authorization of ESEA and Re-authorization of IDEA

Re-authorization of IDEA:

• Increased expectation for collaboration

• Co-teaching and/or team teaching

• Problem-solving teams

• One-to-one consultation

• Monitoring of student learning (RTI)

• Appropriate identification of ELL students

Re-authorization of ESEA:

- ESEA authorizes state-run programs for eligible schools and districts eager to raise the academic achievement of struggling learners and address the complex challenges that arise for students who live with disability, mobility problems, learning difficulties, poverty, or transience, or who need to learn English.

6 important principles of IDEA:

1. Free appropriate public education

2. Least Restrictive Environment

3. Individualized Education

4. Nondiscriminatory Evaluation

5. Due Process

6. Zero reject-child find

• Students by not be excluded from public education because of a

disability

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