Education for All Handicapped Children Act

The entitlement to self-advocacy - or rather the lack of entitlement - afforded to children and young people in the UK is brought into focus if the legislative framework here is compared with that operating in Massachusetts in the USA. There, the particular version of PL 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) is known as Chapter 766 and it contains the following provisions for students who are over fourteen (taken from Vaughan and Shearer, 1986) ... 

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