K-12 AND POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

K-12 and Post-Secondary Education

K-12 and Post-Secondary Education

Institutions shall make alterations to its academic requirements as are necessary to ensure that such requirements do not discriminate or have the effect of discriminating, on the basis of handicap, against a qualified applicant or student.

The postsecondary education system is not sheltered by IDEA, but as a substitute by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and Subpart E of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973( Potashnik, 2007). These regulations set up what schools need to do to support identical opportunity for scholars with disabilities to take ...