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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: you really should look for a school where you kid will be accepted and valued, not just included grudgingly.  Tour the schools and be candid but also be flexible.  And don’t be afraid to look at religious schools - some of them do a fantastic job with accommodations,  NOT because it’s legally required but because they want to.   [/quote]

Under the ADA, independent schools may not discriminate against any student with a disability by excluding the student from fully participating in any school program or activity. The ADA protects otherwise qualified disabled students from any of the following forms of discrimination by schools:
 Using eligibility criteria that tend to “screen out” otherwise qualified individual students/applicants with disabilities or classes of students/applicants with disabilities from the full and equal enjoyment of school programs4, unless such criteria are necessary for the provision of the school programs offered;
 Failing to ensure that no otherwise qualified student/applicant with a disability is excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other students/applicants because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the school can demonstrate that offering such aids or services would fundamentally alter the nature of the school programs being offered or would result in an undue burden;
 Failing to make “reasonable modifications” in policies, practices, and procedures that are necessary in order for otherwise qualified students/applicants to have equal access to school programs, unless the school can demonstrate that making such modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of the school programs;
 Failing to remove architectural barriers, structural communication barriers in existing facilities, and transportation barriers in existing vehicles used by the school for transporting students where such removal is “readily achievable;”
If the removal of the physical barriers above is not “readily achievable,” failing to make such school programs available through alternative methods, provided such methods are “readily achievable.”5
In addition, the ADA prohibits retaliation against persons engaged in activities that are protected under the ADA.6 Specifically, the ADA prohibits: (1) discrimination against or adverse treatment of anyone who opposes any act or practice that is unlawful under the ADA; (2) discrimination against or adverse treatment of anyone who makes a charge, assists, or participates in any investigation related to an ADA claim; or (3) threatening, interfering, intimidating, or coercing anyone from invoking rights provided under the ADA.

http://www.nais.org/Articles/Documents/ADA_Pub_2011Final.pdf
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