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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... School District v . Rowley case ( 458 U.S. 176 , 181 ) . The Rowley case remains the Court's de- finitive answer to the most central question raised by the law : What , ex- actly , is an " appropriate " education for children with ...
... School District office during the years of her schooling there . Additionally , I conducted numerous interviews , many of them on tape , with members of the Rowley family and with individuals on both sides of the long legal dispute . I ...
... School District in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 . December 197S Impartial hearing by the Hendrick Hudson Central School District is held to determine whether the district is in compliance with the ...
... District Court for the Second District of New York on the question of whether Amy Rowley is receiving an appropriate education from the Hen- drick Hudson Central School District , December 1979 Judge rules that Amy's education is not ...
... school district through the district's attorneys . Both deaf themselves , the Rowleys were sure Amy could not experience what the other children would at Ashokan without interpretive help . Not only would they pay for Amy's interpreter ...
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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 |