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What's "Appropriate"?: Finding A Voice For Deaf Children And Their Parents In The Education For All Handicapped Children Act, Suzanne J. Shaw Jan 1991

What's "Appropriate"?: Finding A Voice For Deaf Children And Their Parents In The Education For All Handicapped Children Act, Suzanne J. Shaw

Seattle University Law Review

Initially, the Comment briefly reviews the EAHCA's purpose and its legislative history, and describes the workings of its administrative procedures. The Comment then examines the seminal case interpreting the EAHCA, Board of Education v. Rowley, as it applies to the parents' role in a deaf child's education. This section of the Comment also explores the meaning currently given to "free appropriate education" and "least restrictive environment" (LRE), as well as the natural, and possibly irresolvable, tension between these requirements. Against this background, Section III of this Comment then sets out the Act's unique impact on deaf children. This impact …


The Subverting Of The Goeduck: Sex And Gender, Which And That, And Other Adventures In The Language Of The Law, Robert C. Cumbow Jan 1991

The Subverting Of The Goeduck: Sex And Gender, Which And That, And Other Adventures In The Language Of The Law, Robert C. Cumbow

Seattle University Law Review

The "adventures in the language of the law" that follow examine some contemporary usage problems that have special implications for the law and suggest ways these problems might be avoided or resolved.