Sentences with phrase «for nondisabled»

Report academic performance of students with disabilities with the same regularity as is done for nondisabled students.
The latest government figures show that the dropout rate for students with disabilities is twice that for nondisabled students.
Since the argument against flagging appears to be «more dependent on showing that extra time is of minimal benefit for the nondisabled population,» as Bridgeman and his colleagues write, the panel ought to have seen the findings from this research as equivocal, at best.
Eliminating the reserved space would have only a minuscule effect on the parking options for nondisabled drivers.
And despite widespread outcry from business groups, Texas remains one of only five states with no statewide antidiscrimination protections for nondisabled residents.

Not exact matches

Creating a charter school where disabled and nondisabled children are educated together was a necessity for the mother of this unique invention.
But it's challenging for many students with disabilities and their families to locate real jobs where the youths can work alongside nondisabled workers and earn competitive wages.
Students with disabilities now have the right to be educated in public schools with their nondisabled peers and to be prepared for a positive and productive life after school.
The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA): the total exclusion of some students with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their nondisabled peers.
This principle is based on the idea that classrooms that include both disabled and nondisabled students provide a more appropriate and beneficial environment for the disabled student, who has greater opportunity to associate with nondisabled peers, and nondisabled students learn that those with disabilities are no less worthy as individuals.
The nondisabled students who remain in D.C. public schools lack the same mechanism for exiting failing schools.
Accommodations like extended time, they believe, are necessary to equalize the testing experience for disabled and nondisabled students and thus make the scores of disabled students more valid.
The use of gain scores also minimizes the incentives for classifying a nondisabled student as disabled, since such scores measure individual progress instead of lowering the achievement bar.
On average, the direct costs of providing the services required by the IDEA — which do not include the exorbitant transaction costs — is twice that for educating the average nondisabled student.
If children who are experiencing success in schools or for whom schools generally «work» (that is, white, middle - class, nondisabled children) don't participate in the assessment, their parents lose valuable information.
Ableism, «the devaluation of disability,» can «result in societal attitudes that uncritically assert that it is better for a child to walk than roll, speak than sign, read print than read Braille, spell independently than use a spell - check, and hang out with nondisabled kids as opposed to other disabled kids.»
This model excluded some students from the general education curriculum, standard modes of instruction, and social interaction with nondisabled peers for some or all of each day.
auditing or participating (with nondisabled students) in courses for which the student does not receive regular academic credit,
An abelist perspective asserts that it is preferable for a child to read print rather than Braille, walk rather than use a wheelchair, spell independently rather than use a spell - checker, read written text rather than listen to a book on tape, and be friends with nondisabled kids rather than with other disabled kids.
The gap widened slightly for reading between disabled and nondisabled students.
(d) An individual with a disability is liable for damage caused by a service animal if it is the regular policy and practice of the public accommodation to charge nondisabled persons for damages caused by their pets.
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