Tag Archives: Disability History

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: 7:03 — 6.5MB)Subscribe: RSSWFHB Correspondent Abe Shapiro speaks with Professor Steve Sanders at the IU Mauer School of Law to begin our special report, Civil or Not: The Court Case of Talevski v. Marion and the Debate over a Private Right to Sue.