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...changes this bill will bring about is the elimination of the confusing and often counter-productive terminology used to classify handicapped children. The bill replaces the statutory labels (such as "mentally retarded," "deaf," "emotionally disturbed") with a more general designation, "school age children with special needs." This all encompassing category will include children who are mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, neurologically impaired, physically handicapped or who simply require some form of additional help to meet a normal school program...
THERE ARE DOCUMENTED HORROR STORIES about parents trying to get their intelligent-but-deaf children out of classes for the retarded. In other states, researchers have claimed that whole districts were casually placing blacks and Puerto Ricans into classes for the retarded because of their imperfect skills in English. There are many cases on the other side too, where retarded or otherwise handicapped children were kept in a normal class, but demoted yearly...
...based on a Pennsylvania court ruling of 1971 guaranteeing education to all children. It seems that everyone had a hand in writing the Bartley-Daly bill, which may account for its complexity. At least 20 parents' groups--such as the Association for the Retarded Children, the Association for the Deaf, and the Association for the Brain-Injured Children--all were instrumental in pointing out particular problems that handicapped children faced, and making sure that their solutions were included...
...view of many experts, the U.S. today has the worst relations with the Continent since World War II. To J. Robert Schaetzel, former Ambassador to the EEC, the situation has become nothing less than a "dialogue of the deaf"-which probably means a lot of shouting in 1973 and beyond. After years of seeming inattentiveness, there is no doubt that Washington has suddenly noticed Europe-with a vengeance. Indeed, even well-informed Americans are somewhat baffled. For years Americans were accurately known as better Europeans than the Europeans themselves. Whatever happened, they now ask, to that great dream of helping...
...mother was very ill," explained Mrs. Geertruida Postma. "A breast had been removed, she had had a cerebral hemorrhage, she was partly paralyzed, could hardly speak, had pneumonia and was deaf. Again and again she had told me and my husband, 'I want to leave this life. Please help me.' She had tried to commit suicide but she didn't succeed." Then one day in November 1971, Mrs. Postma visited the old-age home and found her mother propped in a chair, tied to the arms, because a male nurse had decided she needed to spend time...