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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), PL 101-336

-bars discrimination in employment, transportation, public accommodations, and telecommunications -implements principles of normalization -requires phased-in accessibility of school buildings -insists on the removal of barriers inhibiting access and participation in society -1990

Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA), PL 94-142

EHA (reauthorized PL 99-457

-add provision of services to infants and toddlers -requires an IFSP -1986

-guarantees FAPE in the LRE -requires each student to have an IEP -1975

Assistive Technology Act of 2004(ATA)(re-authorized), PL 108-364

-supports school to work transition projects -continues a national web site on assistive technology -assists states in creating and supporting device loan programs, financial loans -2004

IDEA '04 (re-authorized), PL 108-446

-requires special education teachers to be highly qualified -requires that all students with disabilities participate annually in either state or district testing with accommodations or in alternative assessments. -eliminates IEP short term objectives and benchmarks, except for those who use alternative assessments. -changes identification procedures for learning disabilities -allows any student to be placed in an interim alternative educational setting for weapons, drugs, or violence. -2004

IDEA '97(reauthorized), PL 105-17

-adds ADHD to the "other health impairments" category -adds functional behavioral assessments and behavior intervention plans -alters transition plans to become an IEP component -1997

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504

-guarantees basic civil rights to all people with disabilities -requires the provision of accommodation -1973

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act(IDEA)

PARC and Mills - influential court cases

any child with a disability has the right to a FAPE

-changes name of law of the law retroactively -adds transition plans -adds autism as a special education category -adds brain injury as a category -1990

NCLB (re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [ESEA]), PL 107-110

-implements a high stakes accountability system based on student achievement -requires use of data based practices and instruction -insists on highly qualified teachers -2001

Rosa's Law, PL 111-256

-retroactively changes all federal laws to remove the term mental retardation and change it to intellectual disabilities -2010 -

American with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2000, PL 110-235

-broadens definition of disability -provides that impairments or conditions that could limit a major life activity but are in remission still be considered disabilities -2008