Many schools denied children with special needs access to a public education.
These schools could set an admission standard and deny children who did not meet this standard
This included physical impairments cognitive delays deaf blind and emotional disabilities.
Children with special needs who were enrolled in the public school we're often segregated from the general population
The civil rights movement set the stage for the fight of educational rights of children with disabilities people began to fight for a free and appropriate public education for children with special needs.
