A.T. for Learning Environments
It's obvious to progressive educators that all students can become better learners--the real question is, what tools, interventions, and methods can empower them?
• Use these tools to help students sharpen critical thinking skills, develop strategies, and alter their attitudes toward independent learning
• Recognize that the 'window of opportunity' for students is not on learning potential, it’s on the desire to be a learner
• Understand that the medical model doesn't define the disability for the person, it is how it personally impacts a specific life that we must address
• Listen to a student’s perceptions of his/her challenges and find the tools and strategies to empower him/her to address them
• Master your tools so that they work for you—they don’t “fix” the child, your intervention with the student matters far more

All of these Challenges can be Supported in the Classroom
• Learning Disabilities & Neurological Challenges
• Access for Physical Disabilities
• Communication Needs
• Hearing & Visual Needs

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Schools are required to provide FAPE which includes any related aids and services that meet the individual educational needs of the handicapped person as adequately as the needs of a non-handicapped person.

34 CFR 104.33

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