Legal Obligations and Opportunities | Origin: CM251
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Students with Disabilities: Legal Obligations and Opportunities --> Legal Obligations and Opportunities
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Important information pertaining to students with disabilities. Guidelines to help ,protect and ensure students with disibilities have same access as able body students
Federal law does not promise accommodation - it simply promises protection from discrimination. It has been in the back of my mind that Institutions need to provide proper accommodation for our disabled population during their time of learning but here I learned that federal law does not promise it! Yet looking deeper into it, I realized that proper accommodation somehow protects this population from discrimination. Very good read!
Being that I am from a hospital setting now to teaching, there are many different ways that facilities now have to accommodate students with disabilities to ensure they have equal opportunity in the workforce which is done at a hospital or other facilities in future employment.
To this point, this training has echoed the significance of Section 504 and the ADA as statutes that promote equal access to education for students with disabilities. In a higher education platform, being informed of government and organizational policies, student rights, and providing reasonable accommodations to support equitable access to education, is invaluable.
I come from a k-12 background and was only familiar with the legalities of providing accommodations for those levels. This training has been eye opening for me, as I now see the difference between what institutions of higher education are legally obligated to provide. The advocacy falls on the students' shoulders, which is a new concept for me.
I feel that the understanding that equality ,not undue exceptions are the whole point. People deserve every opportunity to achieve their education as long as everyone is accountable to their own successes or failures. I find this information to be very enlightening, and I'll definitely use my new knowledge to help my future students successes!
ADA provides protection with disabilities by ensuring that they have the same access to learning and the curriculum as their differently-abled classmates.
Section 504 and ADA are two important and powerful laws to protect and provide access for people with disabilities.
there is a diffeance between a service and emotional support animal
ADA and section 504 legally provide equal access and accommodations for students with disabilities.
I learned that institutions must provide reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities under ADA and Section 504 while protecting FERPA-protected privacy.
Disabilities need to be supported. The ADA helps us with guidlines.
I learn that dealing wth these issues can be sensitive, and I must be careful not to offend my students by not knowing how to approach and direct them to the right person who can help with their accommodation.
ADA and 504 form help those with a disabilities have equal access and opportunities
An emotional support animal is not protected under law.
California has taken significant steps in 2025 to strengthen legal obligations and expand opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Students with disabilities have the right to equal access to educational opportunities, and are also still held accountable for any disruptive actions or behaviors in the post secondary setting. "The presence of disability may explain why they engaged in such behavior, but it does not excuse it."
I learned that this training is necessary to understand the different kinds of disabilities that children may have and this will help me understand them more as I was exposed to a wide array of disabilities. I will know what to look out for and how to better assist the student. Additionally, schools are obligated to make sure everyone receives equal opportunity throughout and cannot discriminate based on disabilities and there are programs and accommodations that can assist them through these difficult times.
Interesting to find out more background to the ADA. Both Section 504 and the ADA are essential in higher education (public and private institutions) ensuring students with disabilities receive fair treatment and the necessary accommodations to have equal access to facilities, programs, activities, academic materials and opportunities that are normally available to their non-disabled counterparts.
