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This 4 page paper looks at case law and laws on the books which protect disabled children. A history of special education is used to evaluate why special education has evolved as it has. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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when there was no special education. It is just something that has evolved over the decades. There was no one event that changed everything and made education accessible for all,
but there were a myriad of things that happened and particular laws passed and court cases that went to changing the law. In effect, todays children with disabilities may in
fact not have to worry about their particular needs. According to the law, their needs will be fulfilled. That is the promise of special education in the twenty-first century. Of
course, going back about half a century, things were decidedly different. During the 1960s, in the United States of America, there were advocates who wanted the federal government to take
a role in terms of leading the effort for education funding for children with disabilities ("History," 2005). The Federal role is in the provision of a "free appropriate public education"
which uses the acronym FAPE, for children who have disabilities (2005). FAPE means "that the school is required to provide individualized instruction with sufficient support services" (Marshall, 2004, 142). In
1966, Congress would take action and create what was called "the Bureau for Education of the Handicapped under Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act (ESEA)" ("History," 2005).
Of course, the term handicapped would eventually be deemed to be negative. Today, terms such as "special needs" are used instead. Also, after the 1966 decision, more initiatives would arise
and would set aside small amounts of money to serve the children with disabilities (2005). Programs would be proliferated, and the Bureau would recommend that they be codified with one
law which culminated in the "Education of the Handicapped Act, P.L. 91-230" during 1970 (2005). Through the early 1970s, parents would become active and would look into state laws so
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