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Providing Assistive Technology; A legal Perspective

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How you know if a child is in need of Assistive technology? 

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How you know if a child is in need of Assistive technology? 

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Student's ARD (Admissions, Review, and Dismissal) committee must consider the potential AT needs of the student.

The ARD committee must determine if an AT evaluation of the student is necessary to complete its consideration of the AT needs of the student.

If determined necessary, an AT evaluation must be performed in order to assess the specific educational needs of the student.

If the ARD committee decides AT devices/services are necessary, the team must make the provision of the device and/or services a component of the child's IEP.

The district must implement the provision of the AT device/service to the student. The following discussion presents case law guidance regarding these district responsibilities to highlight best and worst practices.

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All the law descriptions showing the improvement over the years for right of Assistive Technology

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To sum up the importance of UDL, basically is the motto for Assistive Technology, "One Size does not fit all." Everyone is unique and regardless of their disabilities everyone learns differently, but the universal design for learning goes more into depth on how to get the ones with more special needs the help they need to be able to learn at their full capability.

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CAST: About Universal Design for Learning

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Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

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Even though the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 helped out many with disabilities, it wasn't until later with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 2004 that required consideration of assistive technology needs for every student receiving special education services.

There are many different legal rights that have progressed over the years that started from getting assistive technology to those in need to getting it to all those in need, to the ADA that prevented discrimination of individuals based on their disabilities.

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-Defined as a federal law that provides the foundation for all special education services

-There are two parts to Assistive Techonology; Devices and Services

-Devices are organized as a continuum from low tech to high tech

-Low Tech devices have no electronic components, things such as pencil grips, can openers,

measuring tools with large numbers, etc.

-High tech devices are electronically oriented and are things like computer specialized applications that can be used for writing, reading, info gathering, etc.

-Mid-Tech devices are in electronic nature but require less training such as calculators, or digital recorders.

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