I chose this case out of the book because I have learned about this subject in my speech language pathology classes so it sparked my interest. This case took place in the year of 1970. Diana was a Mexican-American student that lived in Monterey County, California. She struggled in this English based school system and was given an IQ test. This IQ test was given to her in English, which is not her first language. She scored low enough on this test that she was labeled with “mild mental retardation” put into an EMR class. EMR stands for Educably Mentally Retarded. The case was filed by a group of Mexican-American students that were placed in an EMR classroom based on their IQ scores that had been in English and was content they did not understand.
