Amy Rowley was a deaf student at the Furnace Woods School in the Hendrick Hudson Central School District. She had minimal residual hearing, but excelled in lip reading. Before she began attending the school, her parents and the school administrators decided to place her in the regular kindergarten class to determine what supplemental services they would need to provide her. Several members of the school administration attended a course in sign-language interpretation prior to her arrival, and a teletype machine was installed in the principal’s office so they could communicate with Amy’s parents, who were also deaf. At the end of this trial period, they determined that Amy should remain in the kindergarten class, and she would be provided an FM hearing aid, which amplified words spoken into a wireless receiver by the teacher or her peers during classroom activities.