Special Education Rights Activists Have Reservations Over Senator's Stance On Education For Disabled Children

Children with disabilities need special care, not just through the medical and emotional aspects,but also with their education. The free appropriate public education program in the U.S. for disabled children is still pending and special education advisors are not very hopeful about it in the coming years. However, if one is to consider any moral standards and conform them, it becomes quite clear that disabled children are equally part of the American constitution and must be catered to accordingly.

According to Forbes, Senator Jeff Sessions, who is likely to be appointed the US attorney general, has gathered quite a critical approach towards himself. Shannon Des Roches Rosa, the senior editor at Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, and herself is a mother to an autistic child, expressed that the senator has no understanding of inclusion.

Inclusion is making students thrive in the same place with different curriculums designed to meet the requirements of the children. This system is proven to help all students equally regardless of their abilities or disabilities.

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network also have reservations about Session's role as the head of the justice department. ASAN stated that Session is not capable of protecting the rights of the disabled and underdeveloped population. Session in his earlier statement called IDEA 97 an undermining process, and regard it the reason of disturbing problems for teachers.

Alabama Today also shares the concerns over new US Attorney General's impact on special education rights. Jeff sessions have a particularly strict point of view on laws regarding special children's education, he said that by selecting separate syllabus for special children in the same schools, gives a sense of substandard education for these children.

Although the law insists that whatever shortcomings special children have, are due to physical or mental problems and it should not keep them from entering the same educational system as other children.