SPECED 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Education City, Traumatic Brain Injury, Dyslexia
11 Sep 2015
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Ableism: discrimination and prejudice of people with disabilities. Types of disabilities: physical, cognitive (intelligence, sensory (blindness, deafness, emotional (depression, anxiety, etc. ) History and the law: individuals with disabilities in school and. Court held that the mentally retarted could be excluded from schools. 1919: beattie v. board of education city of antigo. Allowed exclusion of cerebral palsy child because he had a. Separate but equal; set precedent for schools to not segregate anyone. First broad support for the handicap by government. Mentally retarted children are able to benefit from teaching. Can not turn away a handicap child because of cost to the district. Changes individuals with disability instead of handicapped child. One of the first really important movements in favor of the disabled. Section 5042: originally created for discrimination in the workforce, applies to schools that receive federal money, enforced by the office of civil rights, flexible way to accommodate children, brain injuries like concussions, temporary sometimes.
