State and local governments are required to provide equal access under the ADA laws. Their requirements are more rigourous than what private businesses are held to. Your local disability advocacy group should be able to take this and run with it.

States cannot provide services for regular kids and not disablesd kids, so a lawyer is not needed for that, but you will have to bring the situation to the attention of someone higher up in the food chain because the people at the bottom will just say this is what I have been told. You can contact the ADA if you have to and see what they can do, but doing it yourself with the threat of calling the ADA will ussually do it.

People here can tell you that it is always a fight and we can never let up going after services for our kids because even if services are out there no one is going to drop them on your lap or tell you there are there because they cost money.

Just as an example my daughter is is a school funded summer school and my son is as well. The issue that came up is that my son only gets three days a week while my daughter who is far worse off gets five. The school called up the other day saying my wife ws dropping my daughter off to early and by the IRP she was getting 10 minutes to much and it was costing them money to pay the teacher more time, and that she should be put on the bus with my son to be there at a later time, which would actually be more like 40 mins later instead of the 10 they are complaining about. My wife flipped out and went down there and said that if you want to push the IEP it says that my daughter is to be picked up everyday by bus, and if they were going to push this the on the two days that my son doesn't go instead of my wife dropping her off she would require a bus which would end out costing the school way more money. Once that was said the response was oh we had not thought of that and you are right, so you can keep doing what you are doing.

So again this is because you are dealing with someone lower on the food chain who does not know everything that is going on, and does not feel like checking higher up to find out the real story. Keep fighting!!!

I am not sure about any laws, but if you have a YMCA they should offer something. Clay aikin started something called the inclusion project..meaning to include special needs children in typical kid programs. Call you YMCA if you have one and ask about the inclusion project also google the inclusion project and see if you can type in your zip code to find where the places are with that program being offered. I have never looked for my son a before or after school program, but he does go to camp G.R.A.C.E every summer at the YMCA in apex,nc mon- Friday 9-2:30 pm for either 2-4 weeks..they have two separate camps based on your child's level of autism..building blocks is non verbal- need hand over hand assistance and then social skills are for kids that are verbal and can follow one step directions..that one fills up faster..I google constantly too..searching..for things..let me know what the YMCA says...I don't have a YMCA in my town..we have a parks and recs aquatics center and they offer nothing...I drive 30 minutes to the ymca 2 towns over for these programs.

Yep and for sure if they take federal funds the must follow federal las!

Seems that I should have gone to Governer Pat Quinn! Lawyer at this point can only tell me the law but he can change the law! :) Thanks for all of your recomendations! :)