Legal Aspects of Educating the Developmentally Disabled. NOLPE Second Monograph Series on Legal Aspects of School Administration, No. 6. ERIC [electronic resource] : CEM State-of-the-Knowledge Series, No. 31 / H. Rutherford Turnbull, III.

A major development of the law in the 1970s has been the extension of the principle of egalitarianism to the developmentally disabled, particularly the mentally retarded. In recent years numerous judicial decisions have overruled the practices of school districts that have excluded developmentally d...

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