need help finding out about laws to protect the civil rights of handicapped children?

Question

My sister is a grandmother to a child with arthrogryposis of the legs and arms. Unfortuneately the school system that she has started to attend cannot grasp that concept , and does not want to have someone to help this child with all the simple things in life that alot of us take for granted,like ... having to have help to go the bathroom, having someone put crayons in your hand, a fork, turn a page of a book simple things yet elusive to Briana. I would just like to find out how we can protect her civil rights in this school system,who just want to give her adequate care .That personnally I dont think is happening....We would just like to find out any information about advocacy laws to make sure that this school quits yanking our chain and protects Briana to give her the social and education time that she deserves and not sticking her in a corner and ignoring her. Thank you for taking the time to help.

Answer 1

http://www.fcsn.org/
http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/idea2004.html
www.4children.org/pdf/103spec.pdf

I have worked with children with severe special needs for over ten years, I was there only to make sure that the child have as much help as needed. I believe it is a child's right to have that help.

Answer 2

i'm from Ky. and also you're misrepresenting what he stated. he's a Libertarian. He stance is that the authorities must have a fingers off position in topics that the people will do what's ideal. i.e. pot ought to neither be legal or unlawful it would want for use via adults and they ought to renowned what's solid for them not the authorities. gay marriage is a personal decision not the govenments, hell marriage is a personal decision not the governments. Civil rights regulation... turned right into a mirrored image of the people. without the want of the people the regulation might want to by no ability were handed. He became asserting that the country became waiting for the Civil Rights Act or it would want to by no ability were handed, he's ideal. He stated that the people might want to have closed the "Whites purely " places in the experience that that they had not been integrated with the aid of public rigidity. You distored what he stated and so did Jack Conway is opponet and HE lost.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if you should talk with social services or an attorney about this. I do know that deaf kids in normal classes are allowed to have signers to help them translate. And I've known a few kids with cerebral palsy that everyone more or less watches out for.

Have you tried the school board? Not that I think it will help much, but you won't lose anything by checking.

Good luck!