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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... felt at once ridiculous and glad that Clifford and Nancy couldn't know . I repeated phrases , invented variations , sweated , and repeated again . Clifford helped Nancy with my words and we got past the literary agent . But I had ...
Robert C. Smith. For long moments , I felt as though I had fallen into a void . Communi- cation had broken down . How long might it take to clear up such a mis- understanding ? These nice , bright people had a level I could not reach on ...
... felt sure Amy belonged in Furnace Woods with other children of her age and accomplishment . Again , they did not hear from the school district immediately , but they did get a response they credited . Nancy wrote Sy Dubow on April 22 ...
... felt , was , relatively speaking , balmy . The Rowleys were well aware of this negative climate for the use of sign language operating locally . It worried them by underscoring the threat that Amy might be placed inappropriately . At ...
... felt that any fair test of a sign language interpreter would illustrate Amy's need and end the matter . After Amy ... felt strongly that she should be careful not to overdo her presence in Amy's classes . But she felt rebuked here , at ...
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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 |