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Counselor for UC Berkeley's Physically Disabled Students' Program and the Center for Independent Living, mother of Ed Roberts
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Counselor for UC Berkeley's Physically Disabled Students' Program and the Center for Independent Living, mother of Ed Roberts : oral history transcript / 2000Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Roberts, Zona, 1920-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
O'Hara, Susan, 1938-2018, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Wirth, Jean, 1932-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Growing up in Oregon, Washington, and California; marriage to Verne Roberts and raising four sons; PTA work in San Mateo;
polio of son Edward V. Roberts at age 15: medical care, iron lung, therapy, transition to home; Ed's continuing education:
Burlingame High School, College of San Mateo; first disabled student living at Cowell Hospital, UC Berkeley; Ed's work at
Center for Independent Living (CIL) and California State Department of Rehabilitation; Zona's education: College of San Mateo
and UCB; work as counselor at Physically Disabled Students' Program, 1970-1979; travels in Europe; comments on independence,
education, and employment for disabled persons, architectural accessibility and user-friendly equipment; reflections on John
Hessler, Jean Wirth, disability community leadership; Zona's work at CIL and as family therapist.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPeople with disabilities -- Counseling of -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
College students with disabilities -- Services for -- California
Parents of children with disabilities -- California -- Interviews
Counselors -- California -- Interviews
Personnes handicapées -- Counseling -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Étudiants handicapés -- Services -- Californie
Parents d'enfants handicapés -- Californie -- Entretiens
People with disabilities -- Counseling of
Parents of children with disabilities
Counselors
College students with disabilities -- Services for
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
California
Center for Independent Living.
California. -- Department of Rehabilitation.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Physically Disabled Students Program.
Center for Independent Living
California. -- Department of Rehabilitation
Roberts, Edward V -- 1939-1995
Roberts, Edward V -- 1939-1995
Note:
Zona Roberts ; an interview conducted by Susan O'Hara in 1994-1995. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: Disability Rights and Indepenedent Living Movement oral history series.
Includes an interview with Jean Wirth titled, Counselor at the College of San Mateo and early mentor to Ed Roberts. Interview
conducted by Susan O'Hara in 1996.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3098 C:1-16.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyoral histories (literary works)
interviews.
Oral histories
Interviews
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Histoires orales.
Interviews.
Physical Description:
print
1 volumes (xxi, 275 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
16 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.