Supplementary Education Services for the Handicapped Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Supplementary Education Services for the Handicapped Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to acquire teletype, telecommunication, and similar communications systems to aid the dead. Provides that the Commissioner shall distribute, by loan or direct grant, such communications systems to public and private nonprofit schools, agencies and organizations which serve the deaf, and to police, fire and other emergency service public agencies, and to deaf persons for the purpose of providing equal opportunities for deaf persons to receive the protection of public agencies in emergencies. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide for the development or acquisition of sensory and communication devices designed to allow handicapped children and adults to participate more fully in elementary, secondary, postsecondary and continuing education programs and to provide increased cultural, recreational, and communication opportunities between handicapped and nonhandicapped persons. Authorizes to be appropriated $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for the purpose of carrying out such programs. Provides that the Commissioner m…