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The Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (ASDB) is an Arizona state agency, with its administrative headquarters in Tucson. [1] It operates three schools for the deaf and blind, and five regional cooperatives throughout the state: Phoenix Day School for the Deaf-Phoenix Campus (PDSD) Arizona School for the Deaf-Tucson Campus (ASD)
1975 – The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, PL 94-142, (renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990) became law in the U.S., and it declared that disabled children could not be excluded from public school because of their disability, and that school districts were required to provide special services to meet the ...
Lexington School for the Deaf. The Lexington School for the Deaf was founded in 1864. It is the oldest school for the deaf in New York. [2] According to The Encyclopedia of Special Education, the school was "a pioneer in oral education", as other schools for the deaf in the United States relied solely on sign language at the time. It has become ...
Superintendents, concerned about overcrowding and of the "threat" of people with disabilities having children, started to sterilize the inmates. Many of those sterilized against their will were living in state schools or state hospitals. Over thirty states had compulsory sterilization laws and over 60,000 people with disabilities were ...
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As of the early 1970s, U.S. public schools accommodated 1 out of 5 children with disabilities. [7] Until that time, many states had laws that explicitly excluded children with certain types of disabilities from attending public school, including children who were blind, deaf, and children labeled "emotionally disturbed" or "mentally retarded."
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The act also required that school districts provide administrative procedures so that parents of disabled children could dispute decisions made about their children's education. Once the administrative efforts were exhausted, parents were then authorized to seek judicial review of the administration's decision.