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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... mean , Nancy and Cliff wondered , that there was a question about whether Amy would be enrolled in Furnace Woods ? Their deepest fear was that the district would try to put Amy in the New York School for the Deaf in White Plains , an ...
... means of appealing the school district's decision through an " impartial , " school - level hearing , with a review at the state level . Beyond that point , lay the state and federal court systems , reaching even- tually to the United ...
... mean to the Supreme Court . On December 15 , the office of the clerk of the Hendrick Hudson School District wrote Chatoff to notify him that Roberts had been chosen as the hearing officer ; the date for the hearing was December 20 ...
... mean by ' things ' ? " " All the people coming . " " How does your mother feel ? " " She thinks I need an interpreter because I don't understand anything . " " Amy , you seem to understand things , not everything but most things ...
... mean academic setbacks and severe emotional problems for Amy . She appended a list of five people she thought Waldron might consider getting in touch with about this issue . Chatoff arranged for one more visitor to attend Amy's class ...
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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 |