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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.

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Title
Zona Roberts, Counselor for UC Berkeley's Physically Disabled Students' Program and the Center for Independent Living, mother of Ed Roberts; an interview conducted by Susan O'Hara in 1994-1995
Creator
interviewee., Roberts, Zona, 1920-
interviewer., O'Hara, Susan, 1938-2018,
interviewee., Wirth, Jean, 1932-
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
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Other Identifiers
cabeuroh_000234
Subject (Person)
Roberts, Edward V., 1939-1995.
Subject (Corporate)
Center for Independent Living.
California. Department of Rehabilitation.
University of California, Berkeley. Physically Disabled Students Program.
Subject (Topic)
People 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.
Type
Video
Format
oral histories (literary works)
interviews.
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Histoires orales.
Interviews.
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