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Center for Independent Living, Berkeley: deaf services and services for families with disabilitiesDisability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Fitzgerald, Maureen, 1951-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Jauregui, Joanne, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Kirshbaum, Megan, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Landes, David L. (David Lamont), 1941-2008, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Cowan, Kathryn, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,, issuing body.Abstract:
First impressions of Berkeley and the Center for Independent Living; Deaf Services Advisory Committee; integrating the deaf
community into the Center for Independent Living; role of Dale Dahl in the deaf community and the Center for Independent Living;
work with Berkeley Women's Health Collective, 1976-77; San Francisco 504 sit-in; 1977; sign language interpreter at Laney
College; deaf services coordinator of computer training program, 1986-.
Childhood and family in New York, 1934-1951; Lexington School for the Deaf; being displayed at the 1938 World's Fair; learning
sign language at Gallaudet Preparatory, 1951-56; preparing to teach the deaf, 1952-56; experiences in the San Francisco and
San Mateo School Districts, 1960-74; establishing Deaf Self-Help Incorporated; work with the Center for Independent Living,
1977-82; developing the Summer Immersion Sign Language Weekend; producing Bay Sign Program for the Hearing Impaired on television,
1980-87.
Childhood and family in Portland, Oregon; introduction to the Berkeley Center for Independent Living; counseling job at the
Center for Independent Living; the development of the peer counseling model and an orientation toward psychotherapy; birth
of son with disabilities and lack of services and support; founding Through the Looking Glass, 1982; non pathological orientation
in mental health and child development.
Date:
1999 (issued)Contents:
Staff member at the Center for Independent Living, 1975-1976: the development of deaf services at CIL and the Computer Training
Program / Maureen Fitzgerald -- Teacher and advocate in the Bay Area deaf community; deaf services at the Center for Independent
Living, 1977-1982 / Joanne Jauregui -- Peer counselor at the Center for Independent Living, 1974-1982; founder of Through
the Looking Glass, 1982 / Megan Kirshbaum.
Subject:
n-us-caFitzgerald, Maureen -- 1951- -- Interviews
Jauregui, Joanne -- Interviews
Kirshbaum, Megan -- Interviews
Center for Independent Living.
Computer Training Project (Berkeley, Calif.)
Through the Looking Glass (Organization : Berkeley, Calif.)
Deaf -- United States -- Interviews
Deaf -- Services for -- California -- Berkeley
Sign language -- Study and teaching
People with disabilities -- Services for -- California -- Berkeley
Family services -- California -- Berkeley
Note:
interviews conducted by David Landes and Kathy Cowan in 1999, 2000, and 2001.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Interview transcripts also available online.
Interviews also available on audiocassette (Phonotape 4053 C). Maureen Fitzgerald, no. 1-3; Joanne Jauregui, no. 4-7; Megan
Kirshbaum, no. 8-12.
Joanne Jauregui interview of July 21, 2000 also available on videocassette (Motion Picture 1438 D).
Oral histories are 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 Permissions
Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Oral histories.Physical Description:
1 volume (xiv, 184 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
12 audiocassettes
1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Oral histories are 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 Permissions
Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.