Dear parents,
As your student's math teacher this year at Campus School, I would like to inform you of the policies involved in accomadating students who are disabled within the classroom. The reason for informing everyone is because having children with disabilities in any classroom affects everyone. Here is a short synopsis of the three relevant laws for students with disabilities.
The Americans with Disabilities Act prevents people with disabilities from being discriminated against in the workplace. In the school setting, this can be applied to not excluding students with disabilities from certain activites under the assumption that they cannot do them. There aso must be some accomadations for students with disabilities withing the classroom.
The Assistive Technology Act set up state programs that allowed people with disabilities to have easy and fast access to assistive technology. In the school system, students with disabilities should have direct access to the technology that will help them learn the most efficiently.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act makes sure that students with disabilities are provided special services to give a fair education. Students that qualify under the stipulations of the act are given free services that help them learn at the best pace they can.
Hopefully this will help your understanding of the accomadations that are made to create an equal learning environment for all students.
Information here is from the blogs of Jia Acree, Jessica Burns, Heather Davis, Crystal Fronk, Rylee McClellan, Janelle Ottersburg, Tanya Rush, Will Wardwell, and Tim Youngblood.
Some sources about the acts are:
http://www.ataporg.org/atap/atact_law.pdf
http://www.rampweb.com/Accessibility_News/ATAP.asp
Http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/ada.html
http://idea.ed.gov
http://specialed.about.com/od/idea/a/ideadefined.htm
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