Sass-Lehrer M, Bodner-Johnson B
Am Ann Deaf. 1989;134(2):71-7. doi: 10.1353/aad.2012.1301.
Congress enacted and President Reagan signed into law on October 8, 1986, P.L. 99-457, the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments. These amendments reauthorize the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) and include a rigorous national agenda pertaining to more and better services to young special needs children and their families. This agenda was fueled by the recent recognition of the needs and competence of infants, the importance of early life experiences and by the documentation of the benefits of early intervention and preschool services. P.L. 99-457 recognized the unique role of families in the development of handicapped children. The most sweeping changes to EHA since P.L. 94-142, these amendments expanded the provisions of P.L. 94-142 to include handicapped infants and preschool children. The enactment of P.L. 99-457 provides a challenge to the filed of education of the deaf and to early childhood educators to re-examine basic assumptions about the range of services, the professionals providing those services, and the role of families who have children with hearing impairments.
1986年10月8日，国会颁布了《99-457号公法：残疾人教育法修正案》，里根总统签署使其成为法律。这些修正案重新授权了《残疾人教育法》（EHA），并包含一项严格的国家议程，涉及为有特殊需求的幼儿及其家庭提供更多、更好的服务。最近对婴儿的需求和能力的认识、早期生活经历的重要性以及早期干预和学前服务益处的记录推动了这一议程。《99-457号公法》认识到家庭在残疾儿童成长过程中的独特作用。自《94-142号公法》以来，对《残疾人教育法》最全面的修改，这些修正案扩大了《94-142号公法》的规定，将残疾婴儿和学前儿童纳入其中。《99-457号公法》的颁布对聋人教育领域和幼儿教育工作者提出了挑战，促使他们重新审视有关服务范围、提供这些服务的专业人员以及有听力障碍儿童家庭的作用的基本假设。
