Americans with Disabilities Act
This is also an important civil rights act for students with disabilities. The people who are protected under this law are the same people who are identified by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. This law has four primary purposes:
Source: The Law and Special Education by Mitchell L. Yell
- To provide a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination and discrimination against individuals with disabilities.
- To provide clear, strong, consistent, enforceable standards addressing discrimination against individuals with disabilities.
- To ensure that the federal government plays a central role in enforcing the standards established in the Act on behalf of individuals with disabilities.
- To invoke the sweep of the Congressional authority, including the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment and to regulate commerce, in order to address the major areas of discrimination faced day to day by people with disabilities.
Source: The Law and Special Education by Mitchell L. Yell