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Liaison Bulletin, 1986
Public Law 99-457, the Education of the Handicapped Amendments of 1986, reauthorizes the discretionary programs of the Education of the Handicapped Act, provides incentives to states to serve an estimated additional 70,000 handicapped 3- to 6-year-olds and creates a new discretionary program to address the special needs of handicapped infants and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Deaf Blind, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1986
The text of Public Law 99-457, the Education of the Handicapped Amendments (1986) is presented. Title I focuses on handicapped infants and toddlers with sections specifying: definitions, general authority, general eligibility, continuing eligibility, requirements for statewide system, the individualized family service plan, state applications and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Deaf Blind, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Dugan, Siobhan – Education of the Handicapped, 1986
A part-by-part comparison of the old Education of the Handicapped Act with the new law (P.L. 99-457) is presented. The new law reauthorizes the Education of the Handicapped Act through 1991, mandates education of handicapped children ages 3 to 5 by 1991, and adds a new Part H, which provides for early childhood intervention for handicapped…
Descriptors: American Indians, Deaf Blind, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
