Special education used to have no place in society, but now it has a permanent place. For years students with disabilities were hidden away. That started to change in 1973 and by 2002 students were welcomed in traditional classrooms. There were numerous lawsuits that had to happen to free disabled students from their segregation. Lawsuits influences the student’s lives in a great way. They could learn with everyone else. Teacher’s responsibilities had to increase, holding them accountable for the performance of the new students. All students need to learn in a safe and welcoming environment no matter if they are disabled or not.
Social Implications of Attitudes
Feelings towards individuals who had any disability were harsh. It was a game of survival as parents abandoned their handicapped children. Doing this made segregation possible. Any individual who was different became isolated, rejected, and left out of the everyday life in their communities. This was the norm until the Civil Rights Movement changed people’s minds slightly. There were people that now felt compassion towards people who have disabilities. Now the norm is allowing children independence and many types of social connections (Causton-Theoharis, 2005). Other children are more successful when it comes to teaching social skills.
Legislation and Litigation
Laws and court cases explicate how individual people act within their society. These laws reveal what people are allowed or not allowed to do, in effort to have an efficient society. American standards of equality are still predominant, these concepts were mirrored in the rules and lawsuits that guided special education. The way people think about disabled students has changed drastically over the years. Disabled...
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...ear correctly effects the capability of reading, writing, and spelling. An incapability to understand different sound, or hearing sounds too fast or slow will make it challenging when sounding out cite words especially understanding the concepts of reading and writing. Knowing that, I would have understood what he really needed. He needed people to slow down when they spoke to him.
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On January 1st, 1975 public law number 94-142 was The Education for All Handicapped Children Act. This law secured the fundamental ideals, rights and responsibilities to ascertain equal access to public education for all children who are crippled. What education has done in the years it has been around is that it simply makes life one sizably extensive, perplexed system of steps and processes. Our schools don’t accommodate the goal of a true education, but it makes it appear that they are. It would seem that the goal for a true education is for someone to absorb attention, but it is not always right to fill adolescent minds with careless facts or the ways of the world that is decided by a committee. The way that attention is gained for students is to give their own perception on things and have their own notion. From Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education, Horace Mann states that, “education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, – the balance wheel of the social machinery.” It explicates that the consequentiality of kinds of education, including political, moral, religious, perceptive, and physical are paramount to people and to education.
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