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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... considered a " behavior problem . " Given the circumstances , the Rowleys were seriously worried about him . They began casting about for alternatives . A friend had a child in the school system in Mountain Lakes , New Jersey . The ...
... considered by the district court was a total success . She had made remarkable progress , thanks to the school's " Herculean " efforts . She had indeed far outstripped , in that progress , Congress ' purpose in passing the Education for ...
... considered her a kind of " Joan of Arc " figure , a mother determined to help her child overcome a severe handicap . As an educator , he welcomed the opportunity to teach a deaf child . On the other hand , as time went by , he could ...
... considered " oral failures " ( deaf children who could not learn to speak well ) by educators in Goshen . To these peo- ple , total communications , which the Sheies considered by far the best way to teach deaf children to learn ...
... considered her in the " superior " range of students — BOCES students included a number of men- tally retarded children and covered a wide range of ages . The New York School for the Deaf was ruled out despite a considerable array of ...
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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 |