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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... States Department of Health , Education and Welfare , Press Release from Secretary Joseph A. Califano , Jr. , April 29 , 1977 . annual kindergarten orientation meeting at which parents meet the kinder- Copyrighted Material Chapter 2.
... meeting might demonstrate to the school staff how vital a sign language interpreter was even for deaf people with excellent lipreading skills . If they needed an in- terpreter for a semisocial meeting , how much more important that ...
... meeting over use of a sign language interpreter in- cluded " distraction to other children , " " the implications to other handi- capped children in the district , " and " an influx of handicapped children to take advantage of the ...
... meeting of the pupil personnel services team , which included Amy's principal , teacher , speech therapist , and other staff , was set for January 18 , 1978 , and the Rowleys were invited to attend . The meeting went more smoothly than ...
... meetings . She found the sessions unequal contests . The school showed up with ten to fifteen people , plus legal ... meeting , at which various school officials testified to hav- ing visited a Board of Cooperative Education Services ...
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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 |