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- Title: Who's in the Classroom Down the Hall? an Examination of Demographic Shifts Within Segregated Special Education Classrooms, 1975-2005 (CHAPTER 12) (Report)
- Author : American Education History Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 244 KB
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Prior to the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975 (PL 94-142), the educational experience of disabled children and youth was varied and uncertain. Many children and youth with sensory, physical or cognitive impairments received minimal skill development training in institutions, separate day classes, church basements or family homes (Winzer 1993). Although many states already required school districts to provide education to disabled students, PL 94-142 created a federal mandate that schools literally open those doors to students previously excluded from attending their neighborhood public schools. Functionally, PL 94-142 allowed them to walk through the front doors, past the regular education classrooms filled with nondisabled children, and straight into isolated classrooms down the hall. These students rarely interacted with nondisabled peers or engaged in regular education curriculum and activities.