Court rules in favor of student misdiagnosed as mentally disabled
March 11th, 2008From the Associated Press in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that Atlanta Public Schools must pay up to $152,000 to send a student long misdiagnosed as mentally disabled to a private school.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the school system must pay for Jarron Draper, now 21, to attend a school specializing in developmental disabilities for up to four years.
Draper was misdiagnosed with mental retardation by the school system in 1998, according to court records. His family fought for five years to have him retested. In 2003, an independent analysis showed he actually has dyslexia, a learning disability, but Draper’s attorneys say the school system was slow to remove him from the restrictive class for mentally disabled students even after the new diagnosis.
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