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This 10 page paper discusses the impact of 94-142 Education of Hanicapped Act on the teaching of mentally challenged and disabled students. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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lack of understanding by administrations, and poor funding for the special equipment and facilities which are necessary for educating those with special needs. Law 92-142 made teaching children with special
needs a great deal easier as it ushered in a new set of legislation aimed at protecting the rights of the special needs child, their educators, the school system and
the families. Many mistakenly believe that laws are created, accepted, and enacted overnight. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Moving from point of conception to the point of
implementation as concerns 94-142 was not an easy battle. While everyone agreed that the handicapped should be educated, many did not agree with the idea of mainstreaming. Today, the battle
still continues. HISTORY Historically, the handicapped and the mentally challenged were lumped into the same category. Therefore, those who were hearing impaired, or visually impaired were considered as low in
intelligence as the mentally challenged. This presented a problem to most and as a result most of the early treatment was pathetic at best, horrifying at most. Early institutions did
little to educate those who were disabled and as a result the early institutions became warehouses where the disabled could be stored away until their deaths. It was President Roosevelt
who brought into being a new type of legislation that would alter the federal governments assistance to those in need, including the mentally ill. This New Deal legislation not only
brought about sweeping reforms for those who were indigent or unemployed, but also laid the cornerstone toward providing federal dollars to run and maintain certain set standards of operation and
treatment of patients in a mental health facility. Later, President Truman would expand upon this idea and the National Mental Health Act of 1946, which incidentally would later become the
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