In chapter 2 subsection How Are Students with Disabilities integrating, Hall talks of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that started in 1975. The IDEA is constantly revised to make it more effective for those students that have disabilities to help dissolve the isolation that public schools put between “regular” students and those with disabilities. While Hall also reflects on certain disabilities touching on how we should go about teaching those who have: learning, speech, mental, and emotional disabilities. In 2006 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 13% of the United States school population has a disability of some nature.
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