History of Speical Education

The first school for disabled children in the Western Hemisphere is created in Hartford, CN.

This is the first advocacy group for special needs children. The CEC is one of the largest special education advocacy groups. This group ensures that children with special needs receive FAPE.

The NARC was formed by 23 different groups that came together as one to advocate for these students. The NARC consisted of over 200,000 members and helped with litigation and making sure all parts of the judicial process were met.

PARC v Penn called for students with disabilities to be places in publicly funded school settings that met their individual educational needs.

Allows protection from discrimination of special needs and disabilities. This law is considered the first law giving protection to students with special needs. This law includes FAPE and LRE. Students are eligible with a mental or physical disability.

This act made sure that students with disabilities would be educated in public schools. EAHCA provided free education for children 3-21, supplemental services and least restricted environment.

This law gives parents of children with disabilities more say in the development of their child's individual education plan. (IEP)

This law includes 6 pillars: FAPE, LRE, IEP, evaluation, parent and student participation and all procedural safeguards for participants. This law also has 4 sections.

This act states that all students should be proficient in math and reading by 2014. This act was meant to work for all students and even students with disabilities. The students with disabilities were given extra help in test situations.

Changes to the IEP process were added. Students are meant to have as many regular education opportunities as needed and more participation in the IEP process between parents, regular ed teachers and IEP managers.