Little literature exists documenting how K-12 American Sign Language-English interpreters are supervised or evaluated, or how supervision and evaluation affect interpreters and deaf and hard of hearing students. To address this gap, the author asked 230 educational interpreters about their experiences of supervision. Using a critical policy…

This chapter traces the litigation in "Rowley," the first case concerning the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1975) to be considered by the United States Supreme Court. The Court decided that a deaf child, Amy Rowley, was being provided with an educational opportunity that was substantially the same as her classmates';…

Discusses briefly and then presents the text of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in "Board of Education v. Rowley." The Court held that, under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, a school district is not required to provide interpreter services for a deaf student already making satisfactory educational progress. (RW)