- 504 Plan

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A 504 Plan is for people with disabilities. It falls under " civil

rights " (Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and is under

the Office of Civil Rights). So this can apply to workplaces too.

You can have the school set up a 504 Plan with accommodations and

modifications regarding the classroom, schoolwork, etc., to meet the

needs of your child. It - and this is a quote - helps " level the

playing field " to give a student with disabilities the same

opportunities as the " typical/average " student.

So, like with 's OCD making him take LOTS more time to do

homework whereas a typical child might take 20 or 30 minutes and

2 hours, it helps accommodate 's disability by

allowing him shortened assignments or more time to turn in work or

less writing.... And since writing was hard for him, he could get

copies of teacher notes, etc., when he got more to the age where the

teacher would write and the students take notes from the board or

overhead, etc. Like one teacher would just give him the list of

definitions each week, whereas others had to look up the words for

homework at night; this was less writing for .

With us, we didn't want any special education services (speech, OT,

aide, equipment....) so a 504 Plan worked just to modify and

accommodate 's weak areas due to his disability. I could have

pushed for an IEP I think but haven't seen the need yet. I will say

that I also didn't choose an IEP as I didn't want " stressed "

and I was concerned they might put in some goals/outcomes for

to work on. Like " will accomplish more of his work at school

and take less home " and maybe push him a little too hard (for my

tastes) as to meeting this goal. Which for some kids might be fine,

but I felt didn't need to be pushed. So that's another

reason I've been OK with a 504 Plan. I didn't want to disagree with

the school about any " goals " they might want to work on; a

504 Plan doesn't have any goals.

OK, it's early in the a.m., don't know how much sense the above

made! Keep us posted on how things go!

Below are some sites with info:

http://pathfinder.minot.com/section504.html

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/504faq.html

http://www.ldinfo.com/advocacy.htm

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/sec504.index.htm

http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/education.htm

http://www.nami.org/youth/classrm.html