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The human right to language : communication access for deaf children /

"In 1982, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Amy Rowley, a deaf six-year-old, was not entitled to have a sign language interpreter in her public school classroom. Lawrence M. Siegel wholeheartedly disagrees with this decision in these pages. Instead, he contends that the United States C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siegel, Lawrence M., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The importance of communication and language
  • Communication, language, and education
  • The First Amendment : the broad right to express and receive information and ideas
  • The First Amendment and freedom of association
  • The importance of the First Amendment : protecting the extremes of speech
  • Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Equal protection and the place of education in American society
  • Equal protection and the right to communication and language
  • The application of bilingual-education law and programs to deaf and hard of hearing students
  • A proposal.