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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... possible from dependency on others . " * United States Court of Appeals , Second Circuit , Amy Rowley by her parents v . Board of Ed- ucation of Hendrick Hudson Central School District and Commissioner of Education of State of New York ...
... possible . " On the issue of what Con- gress had intended , Justice Harry A. Blackmun sided with the minority , concluding that " equal opportunity " was the standard . But Blackmun sep- arately concurred with the Supreme Court majority ...
... possible , and took up her post on the corner . For a child , time can be an immense and intractable foe . Cold and gloomy , Amy realized that she had made a bad mistake . It was terribly early . Fearful of missing the bus , she had ...
... possible . The woman who had visited Amy's class with Nancy , mentioned in Sue Williams ' notes on February 2 , was Mary Sheie . Nancy took her own notes . " Talking about today's date and the groundhog . When a child in front of Amy ...
... possible that my mys- tery story was as much about me as about the Rowley case ? In 1979 I had found myself writing , among other things , a weekly news- paper column for the Charlotte ( N.C. ) News and several other newspapers . In ...
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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 |