TY - BOOK AU - Dierenfield,Bruce J. AU - Gerber,David A. TI - Disability rights and religious liberty in education: the story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District T2 - Disability histories SN - 9780252052088 AV - KF4210 .D573 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Students with disabilities KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - United States KW - Hearing impaired students KW - Deaf children KW - Education KW - Freedom of religion KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Parenting, training, and schooling: the Zobrests encounter deafness --; Into the mainstream --; Mainstreaming in a Catholic school --; In search of religious liberty --; Signing, sectarian schools, and the law --; The aftermath --; Appendix 1: Federal court decisions citing the Zobrest volume Catalina Foothills School District decision --; Appendix 2: Interviews; 2; b N2 - "This book project analyzes the social context of, and the judicial rulings in the case of, Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (1993)--a lawsuit with considerable significance for disability and church-state jurisprudence. The question brought before the U.S. Supreme Court by the parents of James Zobrest, a resident of Arizona who is profoundly hearing impaired, was whether James might continue to receive tax-supported sign-language interpretation when, in the absence of public high schools in his area, he moved from a public middle school to Salpointe Catholic High School. When local school officials denied the Zobrests' request on the ground that compliance with it would have the "primary effect of promoting religion," the Zobrests hired a sign-language interpreter at crippling personal expense and also filed suit against the school district, arguing that its opposition to their funding request violated both the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to choose for reasons of faith to send their son to a Catholic high school and the recently passed Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which required states to facilitate the education of children with disabilities"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2419162&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -