Charles Birchfield SPE-350 06/30/2017 Diana Metzger History of Special Education Law Before the enactment of the All Handicapped Children Act in the year 1975, almost all US public schools had a policy of exclusion for children with various types of paralysis. The schools accommodated only one out five kids with disabilities. Many state laws, until that time, had provisions specifically and expressly disqualified children with various types of disabilities from attending government schools. These kids were viewed as outcasts. The different types of disabilities with these children included blindness, deafness, and mentally retarded. At the time of the enactment of the All Handicapped Children Act, it is recorded that more than one million children in the United States of America had no...