Disabilities
In: Teen Rights and Freedoms Ser
Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. The Disability Rights Movement: An Overview -- 2. Mentally Disabled Individuals Must Receive Minimum Levels of Care Within Institutions -- 3. Mandating Minimum Levels of Care Could Impede Care in Institutions -- 4. States Cannot Hold Individuals in an Institution if They Do Not Present a Threat to Themselves or -- 5. The Court's Ruling on Institutionalization of the Mentally Disabled Lacks Strength -- 6. A Man Wrongly Held in an Institution Recounts His Life and His Struggle to Be Released -- 7. Individuals with Mental Disabilities Have the Right to Live in a Community Instead of an Institut -- 8. Students Have the Right to Receive a Free Public Education Regardless of Disability or Cost -- 9. The Reauthorized IDEA Should Mandate an Equal, Integrated Education for All Children -- 10. The Mother of a Student with Learning Disabilities Calls for More Integrated Learning Environmen -- 11. Students with Disabilities Cannot Be Moved from Their Educational Placement Without Proper Evalu -- 12. Schools Must Appropriately Discipline Students with Disabilities Within the Mandated Guidelines -- 13. A Federally Funded Education Program Can Deny Admittance to a Disabled Individual Based on an In -- 14. The Americans with Disabilities Act Will Advance Civil Rights for Disabled Americans -- 15. A Young Adult Examines the Impact of Personal Assistance Services on Her Life -- 16. A Man Disabled as a Child Reflects on the Importance of the Americans with Disabilities Act on H -- Organizations to Contact -- For Further Reading -- Index