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AUTUMN LEAF ACADEMY’S NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY:

PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY

 

            Autumn Leaf Academy, Inc. (“Autumn Leaf Academy”), consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of its goods, services, privileges, advantages, or accommodations (“goods or services”). Autumn Leaf Academy will also not discriminate against any individual because of the known disability of an individual with whom the individual is known to have a relationship or association. Autumn Leaf Academy will not impose or apply eligibility criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a disability or any class of individuals with disabilities from fully and equally enjoying any goods or services offered, unless such criteria can be shown to be necessary for the provision of such goods or services.

 

Autumn Leaf Academy understands that, in any group childcare setting, most children will need individualized attention occasionally, that a teacher or staff member may be required at times to provide such individualized attention, and that Autumn Leaf Academy must make any reasonable modifications necessary to integrate, or otherwise afford its goods or services to, children with disabilities, unless making such modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of its goods or services.

 

To request a reasonable modification, please contact [name and contact information]. Please submit your reasonable modification request in writing, if possible. Upon receiving a request for a reasonable modification, Autumn Leaf Academy will initiate an interactive process with the parent(s), guardian(s), or caretaker(s) to explore what reasonable modification(s) may be appropriate pursuant to the ADA. Autumn Leaf Academy will provide a response to a request for a reasonable modification in writing within fourteen (14) days from the date the request is received. Autumn Leaf Academy may:

 

1.      Grant the request;

2.      Make a narrowly tailored request for medical documentation relating to the child’s disability and the need for reasonable modification(s);

3.      Offer a different reasonable modification that addresses the request; or

4.      Deny the request, provided that if a request for modification is denied, Autumn Leaf Academy shall document each reason for the denial and shall immediately notify the child’s parent(s), guardian(s), or caretaker(s) in writing of the reason(s) for the denial.

 

If Autumn Leaf Academy denies a request for a reasonable modification, the child’s parent(s), guardian(s), or caretaker(s) may appeal that decision by notifying Autumn Leaf Academy in writing within fourteen (14) days from the date the denial is received, at which time Autumn Leaf Academy and the child’s parent(s), guardian(s), or caretaker(s) willattempt to agree on a reasonable modification. Any decision by Autumn Leaf Academy to maintain its denial of such request or other resolution between the parties reached during this subsequent process will be final.

 

 

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