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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... understand the needs of a child with a disability , Nancy reasoned . But Amy stopped being scared almost as soon as she got to Ashokan . The outdoors were for the eyes , anyway , and Amy dashed about , gulping down the sights . The ...
... understanding what was said . All the same , she kept the white piece of bark by her bedside for years , to remind her of Ashokan , her first real love affair with nature . And the words lingered in her mind long after the bark had ...
... understanding ? These nice , bright people had a level I could not reach on which they communicated with each other ... understand . In any event , this moment of crisis passed . Nancy took my arm and said : " I want you to meet the cat ...
... understand from what I had read why a Rowley case had occurred at all and why it had pro- duced the outcome I had been reading about . I knew I would not be satisfied until I had answers to these questions . I had a mystery story on my ...
... understanding , and willing to help . What she wanted of Eible , who was later to become superintendent of schools , she made very clear . Amy was presently enrolled in Croton Nurs- ery School . Nancy wanted to enroll her in Furnace ...
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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 |