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The 2002 Florida Statutes

Title XLVIII
K-20 EDUCATION CODE
Chapter 1007
ARTICULATION AND ACCESS
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Section 1007.264, Florida Statutes 2002

1007.264  Impaired and learning disabled persons; admission and graduation, substitute requirements; rules.--Any person who is hearing impaired, visually impaired, or dyslexic, or who has a specific learning disability, shall be eligible for reasonable substitution for any requirement for admission into a public postsecondary educational institution, admission into a program of study, or graduation, where documentation can be provided that the person's failure to meet the requirement is related to the disability and where the failure to meet the graduation requirement or program admission requirement does not constitute a fundamental alteration in the nature of the program. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to implement this section and shall develop substitute requirements where appropriate.

History.--s. 355, ch. 2002-387.