Students with disabilities, like all students, must have opportunities to participate in school. And an important part of this participation involves communicating with peers, teachers or school staff.   With this in mind, this November, all three Federal offices, Office of Civil Rights Division (Department of Justice), Office for Civil Rights and Office of Special Education/ Rehabilitative Services ( U.S. Department of Education) jointly issued guidance about the rights of public elementary and secondary students with hearing, vision and speech disabilities. All three Federal laws, the IDEA, Section 504 and Title II, address the obligations of all public schools, including charter schools, to meet the.

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Often the missing link in a child’s educational progress could be an Assistive Technology (AT) tool that can help a student complete a math problem quicker, read a story better, use a computer with greater ease, or track text more accurately; increasing a child’s confidence, independence and motivation to learn. Often a child with multiple developmental delays is trying to overcome other existing challenges while trying to satisfy a task at hand.  This is especially true for a child who has multiple deficits such as physical, speech and language, gross motor, fine motor and cognitive delays. For example, take a.

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