The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) of 1975 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (P. L. 101-476) identified specific categories of disabilities under which children may be eligible for special education and related services. The most recent legislation, the IDEA Amendments of 1997 (P.L. 105-17), allows states and local education agencies to apply the term developmental delay for children ages 3-9.
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.
verb (used with object), upcycled, upcycling. 1. to process (used goods or waste material) so as to produce something that is often better than the original: I upcycled a stained tablecloth into curtains. verb (used without object), upcycled, upcycling. 2. to process goods or material in this way.