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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 mandates equity, accountability and excellence in education for children with disabilities by assessing student with disabilities using the same measures as students without disabilities. Surgically implanted devices are an added exclusion to the definition of AT devices and services under IDEA 2004.

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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 is a reauthorization of IDEA, 1990. However, it further defines Least restrictive environment (LRE) to provide students with disabilities a free appropriate public education and access to the general education curriculum. The definition of disability was expanded under the reauthorization.

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The ADA is designed to remove barriers which prevent qualified individuals with disabilities from enjoying the same opportunities that are available to persons without disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations. The ADA is a federal civil rights law for people with disabilities and covers state and local government services, public accommodations and telecommunications for the deaf.

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The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) was originally passed as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHCA). IDEA replaced the term handicapped with disability and describes disability categories that makes students eligible to receive special education and specifies the related services and aids that students may be entitled to including AT devices and services. Although the funding source was limited, IDEA requires that schools provided FAPE in public schools.

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Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act was designed to enhance the availability and quality of assistive technology (AT) by providing federal funds to states for training and services to all individuals with disabilities regardless of age. Assistive technology includes any item or piece of equipment used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.

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The Education for All Handicapped Children Act requires free appropriate public education (FAPE) to all students with disabilities. The Act includes that Special Education is a direct service and should be made available to all students with disabilities through appropriate evaluation, programs designed to meet specific needs, Individual Education Program (IEP) and that the programs occur in a least restrictive environment (LRE).

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The Rehabilitation Act provides students with disabilities with reasonable accommodations to accessible environments, including electronic and information technology in public educational institutions. Under the Rehabilitation Act, students with disabilities should receive a public education program that benefits them through federal financial support given to public school programs. In addition, the rights of students with disabilities are reinforced through the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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Because of the Rehabilitation Act, individuals like Sady have gained accessibility and accommodations for qualified employees and applicants with disabilities in public educational and employment environments.

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Because of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004, individuals like Sady should receive education and be assessed like an individual with no disability would be assessed and educated.

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Students like Sady better access curriculum, learning, and opportunities for success inside and outside the classroom when they are matched with the right AT tool for them.

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Sady, and other individuals like herself benefit from Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 because students with disabilities are given adequate education through appropriate evaluations.

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The accommodations provided to students with disabilities like Sady under the ADA provide them with a more efficient working and learning environment.

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Under the reauthorization of IDEA, school systems are required to provide alternatives to due process hearing and authorize additional grants for technology for students and individuals like Sady.

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Because of IDEA, individuals like Sady are eligible to be educated in the same classrooms as students without disabilities. In addition, handicapped students are now referred to as students with disabilities.

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Goodrich, B. (2023). Lesson One Guidance Document. Published in the online course, Technology in Special Populations, University of Houston, College of Education. Houston, Texas. Lesson_1_GuidanceDocument-23.pdf: 2023SU SPEC4353 12247 - Technology in Special Populations (uh.edu)

Tedx Talks. [TEDx]. (2020, Jan.24). TEDxFargo – Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin – Accessing the Artist Within [Video]. YouTube. Accessing the Artist Within | Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin | TEDxFargo

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Goodrich, B. (2023). Lesson One Guidance Document. Published in the online course, Technology in Special Populations, University of Houston, College of Education. Houston, Texas. Lesson_1_GuidanceDocument-23.pdf: 2023SU SPEC4353 12247 - Technology in Special Populations (uh.edu)

Tedx Talks. [TEDx]. (2020, Jan.24). TEDxFargo – Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin – Accessing the Artist Within [Video]. YouTube. Accessing the Artist Within | Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin | TEDxFargo

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Goodrich, B. (2023). Lesson One Guidance Document. Published in the online course, Technology in Special Populations, University of Houston, College of Education. Houston, Texas. Lesson_1_GuidanceDocument-23.pdf: 2023SU SPEC4353 12247 - Technology in Special Populations (uh.edu)

Tedx Talks. [TEDx]. (2020, Jan.24). TEDxFargo – Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin – Accessing the Artist Within [Video]. YouTube. Accessing the Artist Within | Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin | TEDxFargo

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Goodrich, B. (2023). Lesson One Guidance Document. Published in the online course, Technology in Special Populations, University of Houston, College of Education. Houston, Texas. Lesson_1_GuidanceDocument-23.pdf: 2023SU SPEC4353 12247 - Technology in Special Populations (uh.edu)

Tedx Talks. [TEDx]. (2020, Jan.24). TEDxFargo – Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin – Accessing the Artist Within [Video]. YouTube. Accessing the Artist Within | Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin | TEDxFargo

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Goodrich, B. (2023). Lesson One Guidance Document. Published in the online course, Technology in Special Populations, University of Houston, College of Education. Houston, Texas. Lesson_1_GuidanceDocument-23.pdf: 2023SU SPEC4353 12247 - Technology in Special Populations (uh.edu)

Tedx Talks. [TEDx]. (2020, Jan.24). TEDxFargo – Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin – Accessing the Artist Within [Video]. YouTube. Accessing the Artist Within | Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin | TEDxFargo

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Goodrich, B. (2023). Lesson One Guidance Document. Published in the online course, Technology in Special Populations, University of Houston, College of Education. Houston, Texas. Lesson_1_GuidanceDocument-23.pdf: 2023SU SPEC4353 12247 - Technology in Special Populations (uh.edu)

Tedx Talks. [TEDx]. (2020, Jan.24). TEDxFargo – Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin – Accessing the Artist Within [Video]. YouTube. Accessing the Artist Within | Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin | TEDxFargo

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Goodrich, B. (2023). Lesson One Guidance Document. Published in the online course, Technology in Special Populations, University of Houston, College of Education. Houston, Texas. Lesson_1_GuidanceDocument-23.pdf: 2023SU SPEC4353 12247 - Technology in Special Populations (uh.edu)

Tedx Talks. [TEDx]. (2020, Jan.24). TEDxFargo – Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin – Accessing the Artist Within [Video]. YouTube. Accessing the Artist Within | Sady Paulson & Mark Coppin | TEDxFargo