Start Over Date 2017

81. Bettye Dunham on Interviewing Muscatatuck Residents about Work (05:38)

Date:
March 28, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“I wish I had recorded all the stories that we heard during those interviews,” stated Bettye Dunham on interviewing Muscatatuck State Hospital and Training Center residents for jobs at the Jennings...

82. Byron K. Smith Interview (1:47:00)

Date:
August 27, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
When Byron Smith was in sixth grade, his mother got a call from his teacher. She said, "Byron is out there on the monkey bars and he's sitting on the top bar and he's not hanging on with his hands....

83. Byron Smith - An Eleven-Year-Old Pioneer (06:08)

Date:
July 28, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"She kept finding out that blind students were attending regular public schools in all of the surrounding states and she couldn't figure out why weren't doing that in Indiana," recalls Byron Smith ...

84. Byron Smith - Reading Braille Through Bed Sheets (06:51)

Date:
September 7, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"Lights Out!" at the Indiana State School for The Blind didn't deter Byron Smith from his love of reading. He entered the Indianapolis school as a seven-year-old in 1951. He had recently lost his ...

85. Champions on Both Sides of the Aisle (06:07)

Date:
July 29, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"I don't know about you, Congressman, but it's important for me to know how to put my pants on every morning to keep my job here," was how John Dickerson paraphrased Congressman John Brademas in a ...

87. Changes in Mental Health Services (06:18)

Date:
May 10, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
Kathy Christoff and Bill Gilkey talk about the changes they have seen in Indiana mental health services since the 1960s. They discuss the development of mental health centers, improvements in medic...

88. Connie Ferrell Interview (54:32)

Date:
September 29, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“To be part of that and to watch the leadership and those agencies catch fire…" Connie Ferrell recalls the excitement of introducing supported employment to Indiana in the early 1990s. "At the time...

89. Cori Mitchell - "A Chance for a Fresh Start" (05:52)

Date:
August 17, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"Customers come up to me and they'll talk to me like they've known me for years." Cori Mitchell loves her job at a movie theater. As a high school senior in Colorado she was left with a head injury...

90. Cori Mitchell Interview (1:07:00)

Date:
November 2, 2017
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“I get the benefits of free movies. So it's a good all-around job,” explains Cori of her job at the movie theater. Cori works part-time taking tickets. When Cori was interviewed in 2013, she had be...