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  2. When colleges adapt to meet accessibility needs, they're met ...

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    A college accommodation is any adjustment made "to remove barriers for students with disabilities," Elizabeth C. Hamblet, a college disability services specialist and author of "Seven Steps to ...

  3. Least restrictive environment - Wikipedia

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    According to IDEA, deaf-blindness is defined as "concomitant [simultaneous] hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness." [10]

  4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Wikipedia

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    Neurodevelopmentally, children in the child welfare system have risks similar to those of premature and low-birth-weight infants. [45] Children in this population scored nearly one standard deviation below the mean of the early-cognitive-development tool used for assessment. Language skills fell almost one standard deviation below the norm as well.

  5. Special education - Wikipedia

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    For example, a student may be placed into the special education programs due to a mental health condition such as obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, panic attacks or ADHD, while the student and his parents believe that the condition is adequately managed through medication and outside therapy. In other cases, students whose ...

  6. A rising crisis: How to help young girls with low self-esteem

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    Mental health is a serious public health issue for girls and all kids, but there are tools to address it. It can be scary to see children in distress, but they can be equipped with the skills to ...

  7. Individualized Education Program - Wikipedia

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    An eligible student is any child in the U.S. between the ages of 3–21 attending a public school and has been evaluated as having a need in the form of a specific learning disability, autism, emotional disturbance, other health impairments, intellectual disability, orthopedic impairment, multiple disabilities, hearing impairments, deafness ...

  8. Free Appropriate Public Education - Wikipedia

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    The court condemned the school's decision and declared that all children in D.C., regardless of any physical, mental, or emotional disabilities, are entitled to a free and appropriate public education. [18] Yet these precursors of FAPE were just the beginning of the trend.

  9. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    Other mental or physical health conditions also may be disabilities, depending on what the individual's symptoms would be in the absence of "mitigating measures" such as medication, therapy, assistive devices, or other means of restoring function, during an "active episode" of the condition (if the condition is episodic).