N.J. Stat. Ann. § 18A:46-1

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Known as the Deaf Student's Bill of Rights Act

The act spans §§ 18–18 (99 sections).

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Aw v. The Jersey City Public Schools (2003)

Most recently applied in A.W. v. THE JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION JEFFREY v. OSOWSKI, FORMER DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION BARBARA GANTWERK, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS SYLVIA ELIAS, FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PUPIL PERSONNEL SERVICES PRISCILLA PETROSKY, ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION JOHN IWANOWSKI MARY HEPBURN JOAN EDMISTON DENISE BRAAK MARY MACEACHERN EDWARD FAUERBACH, LEARNING DISABILITIES TEACHER-CONSULTANTS NORMA CHRISOMALIS GWENDOLYN JACKSON LINDA COLON RONNE BASSMAN WILLIAM RONZITTI ROXANNE JOHNSON, SUPERVISORS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION SHANETTE GREEN, TEACHER MELINDA ZANGRILLO, COORDINATOR OF COMPLIANCE JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE (1) — (5), ALL IN THEIR OFFICIAL AND INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION JEFFREY v. OSOWSKI BARBARA GANTWERK MELINDA ZANGRILLO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INTERVENOR (September 2003)

amended 1981, c.415, ss.6,9 (amended 1982, c.100); 1990, c.52, s.55; 2010, c.50, s.13; 2017, c.131, s.34.

How often courts cite this section

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in this chapter, a child with a disability shall mean and include any child who has: an intellectual disability, a visual impairment, an auditory impairment, a communication impairment, a neurological or perceptual impairment, an orthopedic impairment, a chronic illness, an emotional disturbance impairment, multiple disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, a traumatic brain injury, other health impairments, a specific learning disability, or is deaf-blind, or a pre-schooler with a disability.

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