01-03-2009, 01:00 PM
The key is having the necessary accomodation. For example, the required assitie technology to enable a blind student to take notes, etc.Some students with intellectual disabilities don't learn as well--and so far we have no real way to change that. But for the great majority of students with disabilities, they perform just as well when the means to offset the impairment is made available.There's a lot of evidence to back this up--especially at the college level. There have been many studies that show college students with disabilities have equal academic achievements on average as the rest of the population. That is not true in our primary and secondary schools overall--because they are (to put it politely) at leasta decade behind the colleges in complying with the law and addressing the needs of students with disabilities. The majority of local school systems are in outright violation of the law in at least some respects--and there is almost no effort on the part of the federal government to enforce those laws.
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