Determining Reasonable Academic Adjustments for College Students with Learning Disabilities
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Vol. 27 (7) , 403-412
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002221949402700701
Abstract
Federal law and the implementing regulations have established that appropriate academic adjustments must be provided to college students with learning disabilities in order to ensure meaningful access to higher education. However, federal law is necessarily broad and offers no guidance in how to consider accommodation requests for individual students in specific contexts. To address this issue, legal tenets from federal and case law were examined, and existing guidelines for weighing accommodation requests were reviewed. Recommendations were proposed for determining appropriate academic adjustments for college students with learning disabilities, and persisting issues were discussed.Keywords
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