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10 pages in length. The long-standing struggle to integrate special needs students with their non-disabled counterparts has been fought in courtrooms and classrooms alike; that the learning disabled are viewed as needing extraordinary measures for appropriate learning leads many to argue that the attempts to mainstream them with regular students creates three problems: 1) Unreasonable expectations for the disabled student to stay abreast of all goings-on in the classroom; 2) Unreasonable expectations for the other students to be held back in their lessons when disabled students require extra attention from the instructor; and 3) Unreasonable expectations from an instructor whose training has not likely incorporated any special skills for teaching the disabled and whose workload immediately expands to accommodate the special needs students. Because of these overwhelming implications, one must wonder if when the disabled child leaves the educational system, has the mandate of Section 504 really helped them to learn despite their difficulties, or has it simply enabled and passed them through using such accommodations? Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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viewed as needing extraordinary measures for appropriate learning leads many to argue that the attempts to mainstream them with regular students creates three problems: 1) Unreasonable expectations for the disabled
student to stay abreast of all goings-on in the classroom; 2) Unreasonable expectations for the other students to be held back in their lessons when disabled students require extra attention
from the instructor; and 3) Unreasonable expectations from an instructor whose training has not likely incorporated any special skills for teaching the disabled and whose workload immediately expands to accommodate
the special needs students. Because of these overwhelming implications, one must wonder if when the disabled child leaves the educational system, has the mandate of Section 504 really helped
them to learn despite their difficulties, or has it simply enabled and passed them through using such accommodations? II. HISTORY OF SECTION 504 "[N]o otherwise qualified individual with
a disability ... shall, solely by reason of his or her disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any
program or activity receiving federal financial assistance" (Gerstein et al, 2004). According to Section 504, school districts have a legal - if
not ethical - obligation to provide scholastic modifications for special needs students so they may be incorporated into the regular classroom (Madaus et al, 2004). To avoid further segregation
and encourage mainstreaming, such adaptations must be implemented from the time the learning disabled student enters the environment. According to Martin (2005), "avoidances of the clear laws under Section
504, the IDEA and the ADA with regard to early identification, evaluation, and placement have robbed many students of an appropriate program at the appropriate time" (p. 144). It
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