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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... opinion , delivered in January 1980 , calls for the district to supply Amy with an education providing the opportunity to reach her full potential commensurate with the opportunity provided other students . Hendrick Hudson Central ...
... opinion supporting the school's position , Roberts , the hearing officer , had noted that the school had all the " on the scene " witnesses to Amy's progress in the classroom . With Chatoff's urging , Nancy vowed to put an end to that ...
... that Globerman was reacting defensively , as many teach- ers did when confronted with a situation requiring special help for a child . 35 The school staff , in her opinion , knew nothing Copyrighted Material The Battle Joined.
Robert C. Smith. The school staff , in her opinion , knew nothing about deaf students ' prob- lems in mainstreaming . The school had every right to consider the educa- tion it was providing as good , Sheie believed , because to her it ...
... opinion that Amy was in need of an interpreter in her classroom if she were to stay at Furnace Woods . " It appeared that 37 Amy's teacher and principal did not fully comprehend the isolation Copyrighted Material The Battle Joined.
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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 |