Audio File:
Interview Topics:
- Childhood, family background, and experiences growing up with Osteogenensis Imperfecta
- Accessibility experiences in K-12 public school
- Accessibility in the 1970s, especially at college and with driving
- Life after school, parenting a child with a disability, and emerging awareness of disability rights
- Experiences in the medical world as a person with a disability and as a parent of a child with a disability
- Evolving attitudes towards people with disabilities
- Disability community, identity, and feeling normal
- Finding the OI community and “coming out” as a disabled person
- How the ADA has and hasn’t changed attitudes about disability
- Daughter’s disability and emergence as a disability rights activist
- Fighting for full access to electives at Southwest High School in Fort Worth
- UT Arlington and accessibility
Transcription:
Interviewee:
Acrey, Penny (biography)
Keywords:
Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Interview, Interviews, Oral histories, Oral history, Transcripts, Transcript, Wheelchair, Disabilities, Little person, Educational institutions, Disability rights, Cardiovascular disease, Cerebral palsy, Blind, Deaf, IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Act, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Medicaid, Wheelchair
Persons:
Organizations:
University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at Arlington. Office for Students with Disabilities, Helping Restore Ability, Stephen F. Austin State University, University of North Texas, Texas Rehabilitation Commission, University of Houston, Cook Children's Hospital, Coalition for Barrier Free Living, Inc., Fort Worth Independent School District (Tex.), DARS Department of Assistive Rehabilitation Services
Interview Date:
2013-11-05
Interview Location:
University of Texas at Arlington. University Hall
Length:
01:12:00
Transcription Date:
2016-07-28
Collection:
Identifier:
20007317
Publisher:
UT Arlington Libraries
Rights:
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Rights Holder:
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
License:
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