In the past 40 years huge changes have been made to the laws that dictate the
accessibility of education for people with disabilities. These dramatic changes have
affected policy at every level of education and have created a complicated web of
intersecting policy issues in the K-12 system as well as in higher education.1 Many of
these changes have concerned the educational rights of students with learning disabilities.
These legal changes have mandated a number of policies in the educational system that
delineate how schools and colleges make education accessible to these students as well as