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Article: College Students and Disability Law.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Special Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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This article briefly reviews Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and identifies the criteria that are used to determine whether a student is both "disabled" and "qualified." Then, specific areas of admission, accommodation, and dismissal are examined. Finally, guidelines are presented that may be used by professors and administrators in their efforts to provide qualified students with disabilities with nondiscriminatory access to higher education.
Today, there are more students with documented disabilities in higher education than ever before--140,142 freshmen reported having a disability in 1996 (HEATH Resource Center, 1998). That figure ...