Part one of term paper
In 1975, the Handicapped Act and subsequent law would forever change the public education system. Handicapped children would be included in mainstream public school life beginning in the elementary level. Inclusion meant that handicapped children would no longer be isolated. The question has long been asked why it took an additional eleve ...

Part two of term paper
... most were hidden from view; no one who had a handicapped child in the family admitted to it. By the 1960s, most of the mentally and physically disabled were housed in state institutions, and this was believed to be the correct way for society to handle the handicapped. However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, institutional abuse became a big issue. Newscasts began to broadcast scenes of bed after bed of small children left alone in a crib all day in a dark and cheerless room with no one bu ...