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Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) (the UK) online availability Further to a previous message about its impending passage, the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) received royal ascent on 11 May 2001. The original copy of the text is available at http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2001.htm as a PDF file. For the international members of the list, it is noted that additionally that this is the Great Britain-based UK legislation. The Act has two main parts. The first Part relates to the special educational Needs and aims to amend the Education Act (1996). The second part aims to amend the Part IV (Education) of the Disability Discrimination Act (1995). This second part covers all levels of education. For accessibility purposes, the second part of the Act was put at http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/senda2.htm as a first version. The rationale for covering only second part is the fact that it covers the discrimination against disabled students in further and higher education (as well as in schools). The further versions would include a thorough check of the text and brief annotations to the Act in the due course. As a further task, follow-up materials such as statutory instruments and code of practices would be included. The related research papers arising from the research project carried out at the Rehabilitation Resource Centre, City University since 1998 have been listed at the research project web site, http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/index.htm with the free full text links to some of these papers which are most relevant to the Act. A work program, (such as a list of the research papers in preparation and list of future conference papers to be presented) is also included at the research project web site. Ozcan Konur Rehabilitation Resource Centre City University London, the UK [log in to unmask] http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/index.htm _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.