Law Analysis Part II

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Law Analysis Part II

Landmark Court Case I: Board of Education vs. Rowley, 1982

Background

Amy Rowley was a handicapped student in Peekskill, New York. Her parents were both deaf, but they had negotiated with institutional administration to provide an individualized education program (IEP) for Rowley. The program was aimed to provide a sign language interpreter. However, after a period of 14 days of services, the interpreter indicated Rowley could learn with assisted interpretations. Therefore, Rowley depended on FM hearing aid for the remaining part of the year. When Rowley joined first grade, the administration prepared another individualized education program as per the requirement by the Education for Handicapped Act that enacted in the United States in 1975. However, the new program did not allow Rowley to have an interpreter in class; consequently, Rowley filed a suit in the American district court (Gallegos, 1989).

Ruling

The case was heard and determined between September and October of 1979, where Vincent Broderick of the U.S. District Court ruled that Rowley was receiving less than the minimum threshold level of learning acceptable in class. "Each handicapped child being allowed to achieve his/her full potential commensurate with the opportunity provided other children” (p. 534). The defendant appealed for the ruling in May 1980 in the Court...