I would like to thank everyone in this forum for posting answers to my question.  Because I am in the situation I described but have been unsuccessful at convincing ANYONE in any agency that these loans should be discharged and that the school DOES hold some responsibility, I decided to post the issue here to see what professionals in the field think.  

Per usual, there is a discrepancy between the expertise voiced in these forums and the agencies' purely bureaucratic, self-interested dismissals I've been confronting for years.  

And we know I am not the only student who has had to endure this.

Much appreciation for your insight.
 
Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt
www.luxuriouschoices.net 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RKenyon721 at aol.com 
  To: learningdisabilities at nifl.gov 
  Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 7:39 PM
  Subject: [LearningDisabilities 1652] Fwd: Answer to Jon's Question - LDDocumentation Time Limits


  Hello,

  I am posting the response to Katherine's  message from Idris Muhammad.


  If an institution restricts disabled students that are receiving financial aid from the provision of testing but offers it to similarly situated non-disabled students,then the institution has violated anti-discrimination law. However, keep in mind, the provision of psychoeducational testing to students is not a reasonable accommodation required under Section 504 or the ADA.



  Respectfully yours,

  Idris A. Muhammad, Director
  Student Disability Services
  (386) 506-3076
  muhammi at dbcc.edu



  Thanks,

  Rochelle



  Rochelle Kenyon
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  Center for Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee
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  I realize receiving financial aid isn't a protected status.  But what about people who have disabilities who have received financial aid or who have borrowed money, only to fail because of an undiagnosed disability?

  Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt
  www.luxuriouschoices.net 



  I do not believe it is a civil rights violation to omit screening anyone receiving college Federal Financial Aid, particularly, including those students who have failed in a higher education system.  The "receipt of financial aid" is not a protected classification under Federal or state civil rights laws.


  Respectfully yours,

  Idris A. Muhammad, Director
  Student Disability Services
  (386) 506-3076
  muhammi at dbcc.edu 



   





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