The court’s decision in the Rowley case stands for the application that is now the I.D.E.A. In the end, this case profoundly benefited deaf people. By the time the reader gets to the Supreme Court’s decision, the story no longer is purely a case; it is genuine people tackling disheartening challenges. I gained a lot of information and knowledge about the laws and acts that help benefit disabled individuals. I also gained a new understanding of oppression and the “able “ that attempt to “disable”.

The long battle the Rowleys endured opened and closed many doors. One door that was often left open was the door for oppression. Oppression was a commonality within this book. Smith documents many stories and scenarios where the family endured run-ins with the courts, the media, professional advisors, lawyers, teachers, and even their followers. Even Smith confesses to ignoring many of the cultural differences between the deaf and the hearing. Smith demonstrates often throughout this book the disadvantages that the deaf endure simply because the hearing view them as being disabled because they cannot hear. Smith learned that feeblemindedness was the common source of oppression when it came to deaf and hearing. He discovered that this is something that the Deaf _World has known all along and that it is going to take a long time before this wall is recognized by our hearing society.

tion process with school officials with in the courts. And lastly Smith illustrates the unjust discrimination that their lawyer Michael Chatoff, who t

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