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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... Later on , she learned that adults in charge of the school - sponsored camping trip were looking for her hearing aids . She had not brought them with her . The school's " trainer " —a wireless receiver used in the classroom to amplify ...
... later , omit- ting the part about his fears . He would talk about it as though it were a visit to a foreign country , not so difficult a passage as he had feared , but one he had no intention of ever making again . At La Guardia Airport ...
... later on . They thought the best way for Amy to compete and succeed in the hearing world lay in using all available com- munications skills . The Rowleys were determined that their daughter con- tinue to learn in that way during her ...
... later with the Education for All Handicapped Children Act . But while President Gerald Ford reluctantly signed the latter act , ob- serving that Congress would never fund it at the promised levels , his ad- ministration simply failed to ...
... Later she decided to become a sign language interpreter and met her husband - to - be at St. Paul Technical Vocational School . Both enrolled at Western Maryland College in Westminster . In the fall of 1974 , Tim Sheie got a job running ...
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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 |