A238: Disability Law, An Overview of How the Law Works in K-12 and Post-Secondary Education

This course will address several areas of disability law, including physical accessibility, digital accessibility, service animals and emotional support animals, the process to request and receive accommodations, and other related areas. Note that this course is designed to discuss both K-12 and higher education disability law, and will focus primarily on the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Fair Housing Act as it applies to residential services on post-secondary campus and related rights. It will discuss generally the technicalities of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (commonly known as "IDEA"), given that law could subsume the entire course. Even though not focused on every aspect of the IDEA, we will discuss how the special education process works at K-12, from duties on school districts to locate and evaluate students with disabilities, through program development, and up to and through litigation when school districts and students cannot reach resolution. A similar approach wll be taken with regard to the process at post-secondary institutions.