The Case About AmyTemple University Press, 2010 M06 30 - 344 páginas The Rowley family's struggle began when Amy entered kindergarten and culminated five years later in a pivotal decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In effect, the Court majority concluded that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act did not mandate equal opportunity for children with disabilities in classes with typical children; a disappointing decision for disability advocates. The Supreme Court decided that schools were required only to provide enough help for children with disabilities to pass from grade to grade. The Court reversed the lower courts' rulings, which had granted Amy an interpreter, setting a precedent that could affect the quality of education for all individuals with disabilities. From the time Amy entered kindergarten in Peekskill, New York, her parents battled with school officials to get a sign language interpreter in the classroom. Nancy and Clifford Rowley, also deaf, struggled with officials for their own right to a communications process in which they could fully participate. Stuck in limbo was a bright, inquisitive child, forced to rely on partial lipreading of rapid classroom instruction and interaction, and sound amplifiers that were often broken and always cumbersome. R.C. Smith chronicles the Rowley family's dealings with school boards, lawyers, teachers, expert consultants, advocates, and supporters, and their staunch determination to get through the exhaustive process of presenting the case time after time to school adjudicative bodies and finally the federal courts. The author also documents his own "coming to awareness" about how the "able" see the "disabled." In the series Health, Society, and Policy, edited by Sheryl Ruzek and Irving Kenneth Zola. |
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... Handicapped children - Education - Law and legislation United States . I. Title . II . Series . KF228.R63S45 1996 371.91'23 - dc20 95-34376 The poem by Wanda Barbara on page 311 was originally published by Atlantis / ADAPT in Incitement ...
... Handicapped Children Act of 1975 . January 1979 Impartial hearing examiner rules that Amy is receiving an " appropriate " education under terms of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act . Rowleys appeal to the New York State ...
... Handicapped Children Act , since renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( IDEA ) . xvii A CASE ABOUT AMY Time Tears Us Apart Amy thought Copyrighted Material Legal Chronology.
... Handicapped Children Act , which Judge Mansfield construed as an educational level " that would enable the child [ with a dis- ability ] to be as free as reasonably possible from dependency on others . " * United States Court of Appeals ...
... handicapped child , a minority child preferably , in a situation in which nothing had been done for him or her . I ... Children Act — overrode this argument , but I had other qualms . My friends had asked me to consider whether the ...
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4 Vindication by Trial | 63 |
5 A Case about Amy | 92 |
6 A Voice in the Classroom | 114 |
7 Full Potential in the Court | 126 |
8 Maybe It Wouldnt Happen Today | 168 |
11 Amy in Oz | 220 |
12 Equal Opportunity Writ Large | 229 |
13 Is It Really Money? | 240 |
14 Amy Remembering | 260 |
15 Not Quite Human | 269 |
16 Struggling and Succeeding | 282 |
17 If Heaven Isnt Accessible God Is in Trouble | 292 |
18 To Be Who We Are | 302 |