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  2. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1889 – Ugly laws were enacted in Denver, Colorado and Lincoln, Nebraska in 1889. 1894 – An ugly law was enacted in Columbus, Ohio in 1894. 1891 – An ugly law was enacted for the state of Pennsylvania in 1891. This law contained language applying to cognitive disability as well as physical disability.

  3. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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    History. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, like the other United Nations human rights conventions, (such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) resulted from decades of activity during which group rights standards developed from aspirations to binding treaties.

  4. Disability rights movement - Wikipedia

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    The disability rights movement is a global social movement that seeks to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities.. It is made up of organizations of disability activists, also known as disability advocates, around the world working together with similar goals and demands, such as: accessibility and safety in architecture, transportation, and the physical ...

  5. Disability studies - Wikipedia

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    Disability. Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct. [1]

  6. Normalization (people with disabilities) - Wikipedia

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    Disability. "The normalization principle means making available to all people with disabilities patterns of life and conditions of everyday living which are as close as possible to the regular circumstances and ways of life or society." [1] Normalization is a rigorous theory of human services that can be applied to disability services. [2]

  7. Special education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The total spending to educate students with disabilities, including regular education and special education, represents 21.4% of the $360.6 billion total spending on elementary and secondary education in the United States. The additional expenditure to educate the average student with a disability is estimated to be $5,918 per student.

  8. Mainstreaming (education) - Wikipedia

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    Mainstreaming, in the context of education, is the practice of placing students with special education needs in a general education classroom during specific time periods based on their skills. [1] This means students who are a part of the special education classroom will join the regular education classroom at certain times which are fitting ...

  9. Special education - Wikipedia

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    Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual differences, disabilities, and special needs. This involves the individually planned and systematically ...