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Spirit of the Law: People with disabilities have the right to live the same as any other person, and have the same opportunities
Letter of the Law: People who have a disability have the right to not be discriminated against in any form, and can life independently

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Spirit of the Law: Schools will provide equal education to every student regardless of what they look like
Letter of the Law: Schools must be integrated between different races

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Spirit of the Law: Educators can follow instructions to help label a child to provide ample support for them
Letter of the Law: Schools must follow a model in response to being labeled under the IDEA RTI model

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Spirit of the Law: Children with disabilities will receive all of the benefits from a free public education
Letter of the Law: Students with disabilities have access to public schools

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Spirit of the Law: A person with disabilities could receive extra beneficial services that could maximize their independence
Letter of the Law: a person with handicaps were given the right to attend schools

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- The IDEA act helps classify certain disabilities. This allows schools to give families plans to help a child through the school system
- Assessments for certain disabilities added
- alternative models are put in place in 2004 to update responses to disabilities

How Mason is Affected:
Mason can receive the proper help in school and his daily life because of his label and the plans in place to help someone like him get an equal chance

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- This discussion revolved around what made services good enough
- The ADA guarantees opportunity to people with disabilities in all public services
- All people have the right to live their life independently and to make their own choices in the world
- People with disabilities may not be discriminated against in the workplace

How Mason is Affected: Once Mason graduates, he has the right to live by himself, and the right to be considered for a job without fear of being discriminated

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Interests, Abilities, and Learning needs

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Interests, Abilities, and Learning needs

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Interests: loves watching movies and TV shows; binges for hours. Enjoys collecting things; cards, toys, nostalgia items.
Abilities: Gifted at math and science, but struggles with history or English. Good at problem solving, but not memory based education. Can work for hours with no complaints.
Learning Needs: patient teachers, a curriculum that utilizes his strengths, ability to put tasks on hold for a distraction, headphones for music, can be "not present," so Mason needs someone to help him complete some normal daily tasks

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- All agencies that accept federal funds must provide equal opportunity to persons with disabilities
- Defined certain disabilities that would fall under the 504 category
- developed around providing needs and services that could maximize a person with disabilities' impact

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- At this time there was no legal mandate to provide mentally disabled children public schooling
- PARC challenged the exclusion of students with disabilities
- the District Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to deny any child public education- it was a basic Right

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Rapp W., and Arndt K. (2012). Teaching Everyone: An introduction to inclusive education. Brookes Publishing Company.

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- Case concerned racial desegregation in Kansas schools
- NAACP argued that as long as schools were separate, then they could not be equal
- Integration of all students was on the line during this case
- Supreme Court ruled in favor of the families stating all children should receive equal education

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Age: 16
Grade: High School, BOCES Special Education Program- Mason is a really intelligent student who on some days loves learning and answering questions, while other days he is grumpy and does not contribute to in class discussions. However, Mason is very good at working alone while listening to music or in silence.
Ethnicity: White
Location: Utica, NY
Disability Label: Autism