http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2009/08/26/sen-edward-kennedy-dies/4742/ Developmental Disability News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:55:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2009/08/26/sen-edward-kennedy-dies/4742/comment-page-1/#comment-546 twinkie1cat Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:06:16 +0000 http://www.disabilityscoop.com/?p=4742#comment-546 The original special education law that became IDEA was PL 94-142. It was implemented in 1975 but the colleges were preparing for it in 1969 when they started providing undergraduates with special education degree programs. I got mine at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. (Roll Tide) Prior to this a teacher got a degree in elementary education and then took 15 hours in special education. Concurrent was the de-institutionalization movement which made both IDEA and the Americans with Disabilities Act necessary. Kennedy was very forward thinking in the area of special education. I did not realize he was a sponsor of 94-142. America would not have been such a good place without Ted Kennedy. I only wish he could have stayed around long enough to shove universal health care through. The original special education law that became IDEA was PL 94-142. It was implemented in 1975 but the colleges were preparing for it in 1969 when they started providing undergraduates with special education degree programs. I got mine at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. (Roll Tide) Prior to this a teacher got a degree in elementary education and then took 15 hours in special education. Concurrent was the de-institutionalization movement which made both IDEA and the Americans with Disabilities Act necessary. Kennedy was very forward thinking in the area of special education. I did not realize he was a sponsor of 94-142. America would not have been such a good place without Ted Kennedy. I only wish he could have stayed around long enough to shove universal health care through.

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