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Adrienne Asch, professor and director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, was interviewed for the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history project to document her contributions for more than three decades as an activist and scholar. She has had an important role as advocate and activist on disability issues in New York and nationally. Her scholarly work is broadly focused on the ethical, political, psychological,... Adrienne Asch, professor and director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, was interviewed for the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history project to document her contributions for more than three decades as an activist and scholar. She has had an important role as advocate and activist on disability issues in New York and nationally. Her scholarly work is broadly focused on the ethical, political, psychological, and social implications of human reproduction and the family, to which she contributes a nuanced disability perspective. Show more Show less

During her life Alana Theriault has fought for the right to live independently, to have adequate benefits and supports, and to be employed; and she has turned her hard-won experience into expertise which has benefited innumerable other people with disabilities. Theriault is highly regarded in California, and nationally, for her knowledge and advocacy related to navigating public and private sector cash and health benefits systems, work incentive... During her life Alana Theriault has fought for the right to live independently, to have adequate benefits and supports, and to be employed; and she has turned her hard-won experience into expertise which has benefited innumerable other people with disabilities. Theriault is highly regarded in California, and nationally, for her knowledge and advocacy related to navigating public and private sector cash and health benefits systems, work incentive policies, and independent living resources. Show more Show less

A coalition of national, state, and local disability organizations active from 1975 to 1983, ACCD brought a cross-disability perspective to the movement and took a leading role in the national effort to force implementation of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and passage of the Education of all Handicapped Children Act of 1975. Oral histories with several founders and leaders in ACCD are in the DRILM collection.

Founding member of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the National Paraplegia Foundation, the Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, and the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities. View video clip: On the development of her disability identity during the demonstration against gasoline rationing. View video clip: On the defining issues for the disability movement in the 1970s in New York.