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Special education in the United States enables students with exceptional learning needs to access resources through special education programs. "The idea of excluding students with any disability from public school education can be traced back to 1893, when the Massachusetts Supreme Court expelled a student merely due to poor academic ability". [1]
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is a unit within the U.S Department of Education. Originally created as the Bureau of the Education of the Handicapped in 1967, [2] its purpose is to strengthen and coordinate activities on behalf of students with disabilities.
In addition, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Public Law 89–10, [12] as originally enacted in 1965 and amended that same year via Public Law 89-313, [13] gave states grant assistance for educating students with disabilities. [11] Case law in the lower federal courts, i.e., at the district court level, began to move in a similar ...
An eligible student is any child in the U.S. between the ages of 3–21 attending a public school and has been evaluated as having a need in the form of a specific learning disability, autism, emotional disturbance, other health impairments, intellectual disability, orthopedic impairment, multiple disabilities, hearing impairments, deafness ...
Reauthorized the Higher Education Act. Expanded student loan discharges for people with disabilities. Pub. L. 110–315 (text) 2008 (No short title) Extended the Federal Family Education Loan Program to 2010. Pub. L. 110–350 (text) 2008 (No short title)
Students with disabilities are federally entitled to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) and sometimes require services to achieve that level, such as speech and language interventions ...
The petitioner, Tommy Smith, was an eight-year-old student who had cerebral palsy. The school district in Cumberland, Rhode Island originally agreed to subsidize Tommy's education by placing him in a program for special needs children at the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital. The school district later decided to remove Tommy from that program and ...
Students in the summer program attend 5 weeks of English, math, and science classes in the summer months. Mathematics classes include algebra, geometry, precalculus, calculus, and science courses are held for biology, chemistry, and physics. After completing the program, the student receives one college credit from the associated institution.