Interview with Mike Alford

Interview Topics:

• Alford’s diving accident, rehabilitation, and how he chose UT Arlington
• Accessibility at UT Arlington and its attendant care program
• Jim Hayes’ expectations for disabled students’ lives at UT Arlington
• The disability community at UT Arlington
• Jim Hayes’s role in the adapted P.E. program and adapted sports
• Early wheelchair soccer (or power soccer) at UT Arlington
• Campus attitudes about disability
• Family attitudes about Alford’s disability
• Publicity about UT Arlington’s accessible campus and changes in accessibility during the 1980s
• Mike Duncan and other friends with disabilities on campus
• UT Arlington’s wheelchair basketball team
• Memorable moments: dating and driving with a physical disability
• Alford’s career in student services at Cedar Valley College
• Personal stories about Jim Hayes

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Interviewee:

Alford, Mike (biography)

Topic:

Physical Disability, Educational Institutions, Medicine and Science

Keywords:

Accessibility, Accommodations, Advocacy, Quadraplegia, Quadriplegic, Wheelchair basketball, Adapted sports, Family, Wheelchairs, Adapted physical education class (University of Texas at Arlington), Disability culture, Interviews, Interviews, Oral histories, Oral history, Transcript, Transcripts

Persons:

Alford, Mike, Hayes, Jim, Duncan, Michael, Mack, Donna, Davenport, Daniel

Places:

Red Oak (Tex.)

Organizations:

Texas. Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, Cedar Valley College (Dallas, Tex.), Methodist Hospital (Dallas, Tex.), University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Rehabilitation Commission, Parkland Hospital (Dallas, Tex.)

Interview Date:

2016-03-25

Interview Location:

Red Oak (Tex.)

Length:

00:41:54

Collection:

Texas Disability History Project Oral Histories

Identifier:

20007319

Publisher:

UT Arlington Libraries

Rights:

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Rights Holder:

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections

License:

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