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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:47 — 10.9MB)Subscribe: RSS ***CORRECTION:THE CASE OF Fry V Napoleon Public Schools TOOK PLACE IN 2017, NOT 1986. RATHER, THE CASE OF FRY RULED THAT A 1986 LAW, the Handicapped Children’s Protection Act of 1986, DID NOT REQUIRE A SPECIAL EDUCATION PLAINTIFF TO EXHAUST ALL PROCESSES OF APPEALS UNLESS THE PLAINTIFF’S SPECIFIC CASE …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:30 — 10.7MB)Subscribe: RSSTonight’s episode: The Rise and Temporary Fall of Special Education in Washington State. When we left off, we had just finished discussing the 1951 founding of the ARC of the United States as a voice for the rights of individuals with disabilities. We also covered its humble beginnings as the Children’s …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:08 — 14.0MB)Subscribe: RSSGood evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is Part IV of Disabulletin’s docuseries Lawyers Schools And Access: The History of Special Education in the United States. Tonight’s installment covers the first parent groups of the United States, who mobilized on behalf of their children in Ohio and Washington respectively. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:07 — 12.1MB)Subscribe: RSSAs part of our continuing exploration regarding the history of special education, we have covered the critical special education court cases that preceded last January’s supreme court case regarding special education Perez V Sturgis. Our journey so far has taken to the earliest case 1893’s Watson V Cambridge to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:24 — 6.1MB)Subscribe: RSSThis weekend, the disability community lost one of its pioneers and heroes, Judy Heumann. This week, we pause our regularly scheduled docuseries Lawyers Schools And Access and remember the woman who contributed to the signing of Section 504 and inspired a nation!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:21 — 9.5MB)Subscribe: RSSGood evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is a special edition of Disabulletin. Tonight, we continue our report: Lawyers, Schools, and Access: A History of Special Education in the United States as part of our coverage of the recent Supreme Court Special Education Case Perez V Sturgis School District, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:54 — 10.9MB)Subscribe: RSS Good evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is Disabulletin, where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world. Tonight, we begin the first leg of an adventure covering the history of Special Education Law in the United States. This is …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:45 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSSGood evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is Disabulletin, where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world. Two weeks ago, Disabulletin covered the challenges facing New Jersey School Districts as they work to determine what a post-pandemic classroom looks like …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:18 — 21.1MB)Subscribe: RSSThis week, we continue our discussion of the Supreme Court case heard last Wednesday, Perez V Sturgis school district. The case concerns two laws: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or IDEA, which requires children with disabilities be provided a “free appropriate public education” or (FAPE) and the Americans …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:38 — 17.4MB)Subscribe: RSSThe Supreme Court met today to hear a case regarding a deaf student Miguel Luna Perez of Sturgis Michigan, who was denied access to a professional sign language interpreter and whose parents were falsely told over the course of 12 years that their son was on his way to …