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.