Foreword
Before the enactment of the Education of All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, approximately 1 million children with disabilities were denied a public education. Hundreds of thousands more, though in school, were unable to learn because of a lack of appropriate services. Today, the opportunities for such children are dramatically different. Compared with their predecessors, three times the number of young people with disabilities are enrolled in colleges or universities, and twice as many 20-year-olds with disabilities are working. Despite this progress, a gap still exists for many children between what they are able to learn and what is required…
