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LAS VEGAS -- A deaf student is suing the Nevada university system, claiming assigned note-takers hurt her chance to get good grades.
Lezlie Ann Button seeks in the civil rights lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to remove from her transcripts low marks from the Community College of Southern Nevada and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The case focuses on federal disability requirements that schools provide reasonable services to help students with disabilities receive the same education as other students.
"I want ... services improved to allow these deaf students to have the better opportunity to excel at their education," Button, who now lives in Cortland, N.Y., told the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a Monday report.
"Deaf students like myself need to watch the interpreter all the time," she said in an interview using an Internet-based text messaging system.
Button, 34, has been deaf since infancy. The lawsuit alleges that several note-takers hired by the schools couldn't keep up, missed classes or quit, and didn't provide a thorough outline for her review.
University system attorneys declined comment. But in response to the lawsuit, the system denied responsibility for Button's failing grades, humiliation and distress.
Button graduated from CCSN with an associate's degree in geographical information systems, but left UNLV after she said the school refused to provide her with a real-time captioning service besides an interpreter. She plans to attend the State University of New York, College at Cortland, in the fall.
Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, www.lvrj.com
Lezlie Ann Button seeks in the civil rights lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to remove from her transcripts low marks from the Community College of Southern Nevada and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The case focuses on federal disability requirements that schools provide reasonable services to help students with disabilities receive the same education as other students.
"I want ... services improved to allow these deaf students to have the better opportunity to excel at their education," Button, who now lives in Cortland, N.Y., told the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a Monday report.
"Deaf students like myself need to watch the interpreter all the time," she said in an interview using an Internet-based text messaging system.
Button, 34, has been deaf since infancy. The lawsuit alleges that several note-takers hired by the schools couldn't keep up, missed classes or quit, and didn't provide a thorough outline for her review.
University system attorneys declined comment. But in response to the lawsuit, the system denied responsibility for Button's failing grades, humiliation and distress.
Button graduated from CCSN with an associate's degree in geographical information systems, but left UNLV after she said the school refused to provide her with a real-time captioning service besides an interpreter. She plans to attend the State University of New York, College at Cortland, in the fall.
Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, www.lvrj.com
