CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT v. GARRET F., a minor, by his mother and next friend, CHARLENE F
By Lorateimoor
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States to educate handicapped children with nonhandicapped children whenever possible. require districts to provide disabled children with health-related services that school nurses can perform as part of their normal duties.
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to assure that all children with disabilities have available to them . . . a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs.provide disabled children with special education and “related services.provide a ventilator-dependent student with certain nursing services during school hours.
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Federal funds under IDEA to provide all disabled students with appropriate public education. For the school to provide one on one support for the disabled students throughout the school day.
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When Garret was four years old, his spinal column was severed in a motorcycle accident. Though paralyzed from the neck down, his mental capacities were unaffected. He is able to speak, to control his motorized wheelchair through use of a puff and suck straw, and to operate a computer with a device that responds to head movements.