Now, they are seeking compensatory damages from the district under the Rehabilitation Act and the ADA. “Think about Ava, who desperately needs every precious hour of school so she can learn to ...

WASHINGTON − For years, Gina and Aaron Tharpe argued that a local school district hadn't done enough to accommodate their daughter, who has a rare form of epilepsy and severe cognitive ...

A student with a rare form of epilepsy said her school failed to accommodate her need for different instructional hours. The student won her case under the Individuals with Disabilities Education ...

DePauw University is committed to providing equal access to academic programs and university administered activities with reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities as covered under The ...

the Americans with Disability Act and the Rehabilitation Act. The IDEA obligates all school districts to provide a “free appropriate public education” to children with disabilities. Because Congress ...

Tharpe and her parents sued the Osseo Area School System, claiming that it failed to live up to the requirements specified under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act ...

as mandated under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. “That multiple representations were submitted to the government of Haryana, requesting ...

Heather Sachs, co-director of policy and advocacy at the National Down Syndrome Congress, is warning that lawmakers are looking to act quickly. “Congress is moving fast, and lives are on the line,” ...

Actor and disability rights advocate Selma Blair has helped Biden salute the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, displaying a touch of the comedic timing that ...

Issue: Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Rehabilitation Act of 1973 require children with disabilities to satisfy a uniquely stringent "bad faith or gross misjudgment" standard ...

From April 5-28,1977, more than 100 people with disabilities sat-in at the Department of Health Education and Welfare in San ...