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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... knew Smith , sought my advice on how to respond to his re- quest to write a book about the case . The deaf community in the United States is quite closely knit ; I had known the Rowleys for several years and understood their concerns ...
... knew the answer even before the puzzled " what ? " response . I ex- plained about the TTY . Mr. Rowley is deaf , I said . The caller turned out to be an electrician who had been asked to change an electrical meter . He had talked with ...
... knew next to nothing about deafness . What I had learned about disability generally from two years ' work on Seven Special Kids seemed to me only what any visitor from another planet would learn on a guided tour led by knowledgeable ...
... knew that this method was not just a pipe dream of two scholars but was being practiced daily in a number of school districts across the country . The authors ' description of the failure of " mainstreaming " com- ported exactly with ...
... knew very little about deafness . They had been worried for some time , noting that their daughter's speech had not progressed as John's had at a comparable age . When Amy was three , Clifford and Nancy , both excellent swimmers , were ...
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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 |