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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... face and gesticulating hands that were set to dancing by the act of motion or speech . Her whole routine might have seemed a bit theatrical , even for a twelve - year - old , if not for her smile , which was fresh and full of sparkle ...
... face . I should talk with her mother about that . Taking a different tack , I asked about her best friends in Mountain Lakes . Her face brightened and she began to toll off the names of her schoolgirl friends . Her eyes glistened with ...
... face away , stubbornly back into the chilly breeze . When she looked around again , the woman was walking down the block away from her . Much , much later — Amy's face was stiff with cold by this time — she saw the school bus coming her ...
... face of the speaker . In a small reading group led by Globerman , Deninger concluded that Amy understood approximately 25 percent as the teacher and students read aloud from their books , with the FM receiver being passed from hand to ...
... face and lips closely and to do so she must take her eyes , however briefly , from the toad . I find myself biting ... faces alight with 41 emotion , their expressive hands sculpting towers of language . Copyrighted Material Like Light ...
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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 |