The Bill Of Rights For Handicapped Children

In the past 50 years much has changed about how we treat disabled children and the opportunities that they receive. Society is progressing to understand and except people with special needs, and with this societal change many rules and regulations have been created to help protect the rights of special needs children.

1963—Universities were given government funding under the University Affiliated Facilities (UAF) act. They worked to serve infants and children with developmental delays and disabilities. 1965- Head start, a government ran origination that offers early education to low-income children, first began. In 1972 that established guidelines that state that at least 10% of the slots were reserved for children with disabilities. 1968– A law, the handicapped children’s early education assistance act (HCEEP), was passed that focused on young handicapped children. They strived to offer early intervention.-

Today this organization is called individuals with disabilities education improvement act (IDEIA) in 1990. This law works to uphold the rights of disabled people, and states that all children, despite the severity of their disabilities, have a right to an education. The law set standards on how special needs children are to be treated stating that no school can reject these children, they must undergo a nondiscriminatory evaluation, receive an appropriate education, they must be included in actives with typically developed children, the parents have a right to due process if they do not agree with the schools methods, and parents are always allowed to participate in their child’s education. They offer early intervention to children with disabilities. In 1986 a new legislation was passed that expended the services of IDEIA to children between birth and three years