This comprehensive pamphlet gives you legal guidance concerning students with disabilities who participate in athletics and extracurricular activities, with an emphasis on requirements for providing an equal opportunity and the district’s duty not to discriminate against students who choose to take part.

Chapters include: Extracurricular Activities: An Overview of IDEA and Section 504 Participation Requirements; Athletics and Interscholastic Sports; Field Trips and Excursions; Clubs, Special Interest Groups, Social Events and Related Activities; and Participation of Students with Disabilities in Other Non-educational Activities.

What’s more, Athletics, Extracurricular Activities and Students with Disabilities gives you:

• Steps a district might be required to take to ensure legal compliance regarding extracurricular activities and students with disabilities
• Circumstances under which your district could face liability when another entity — such as an interscholastic athletic association — discriminates on the basis of a student’s disability
• Analysis of how the IDEA and Section 504 apply to various extracurricular activities
• And much more

Plus, you get the full text of relevant judicial and administrative rulings, OCR Letters of Finding, and related sections of the IDEA and Section 504 for easy reference.