Director of the UC Berkeley Disabled Students' Program, 1988-1992; coordinator of the Residence Program, 1975-1988, and community historian

Alternate Titles

• Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.

Description

Childhood and education in Illinois; contracting polio, 1955; family support and adjustments; high school teaching, Ilinois and California; observations as a participant in the Cowell Hospital Residence Program, summer 1971; coordinator of Disabled Students' Residence Program, 1975-1988: transition from hospital setting to university residence halls; director of the Disabled Students' Program at Berkeley, 1988-1992: facilitating independent living for students and orientation for families; politics of disability movement; relationship with California Department of Rehabilitation; removal of architectural barriers on University of California, Berkeley campus; organizing disability conferences; travel in Japan and Europe; contributions of Ed Roberts, Zona Roberts, John Hessler, and others to the disability rights movement.

Subjects

Genres

• Interviews