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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... Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( IDEA ) , a number of important judicial interpretations of this landmark special education law have been issued . The first case to reach the United States Supreme Court , and the most ...
... individuals with disabilities by persuading me in 1979 to write the monograph that became Seven Special Kids . I probably would not have taken up work on this book in 1984 without a $ 15,000 start - up expense grant from Gordon Berlin ...
... the Rowley family and with individuals on both sides of the long legal dispute . I have drawn also from letters written to me by some of these players . LEGAL CHRONOLOGY April 1977 Parents of Amy Rowley file complaint Copyrighted Material.
... the Supreme Court on the Education for All 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.
... individual misses out com- pletely " ( p . 6 ) . Mainstreaming could succeed , the authors observed , when an " interpreter- tutor " was present in the classroom to interpret into sign language what the regular classroom teacher said ...
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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 |