Disability Voices
Pridmore, Anne (Part 5 of 8) Speaking for ourselves: an oral history of people with cerebral palsy
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Type
sound
Duration
00:31:23
Shelf mark
C1134/13/01-04
Subjects
Cerebral Palsy
Recording date
2005-07-29
Interviewees
Pridmore, Anne, 1939- (speaker, female)
Interviewers
Austin, Anne (speaker, female)
Abstract
Part 5 (Tape 3 side A): Disability politics. Moved to the Leicester Centre for Integrated Living and got involved as a representative for the British Council of Disabled People for 5 years before becoming chair of the BCoDP. Rachel Hurst from Disability Awareness in Action asked Anne to be a rep on the European National Council and then chaired ENC for 6 years before going back to BCoDP. Only acknowledged what it was really like to be a disabled person at 44. Happy memories of school. Lonely teenage years. Attitudes disable people. Anne was Sunday school teacher in home town and in Market Harborough. Attending church. Jane Campbell, the guru of independent living. Difficulty for charities to get good trustees. Charity law. Elected as the National Council in the UK Forum delegate to Europe. Manifesto for disabled women and children. A women’s committee run through BCoDP by email. UN Convention on Human Rights. Disability issues are different for women. Employing Personal Assistants for 13 years. What makes a good PA. Abuse - theft and mental abuse. Anne taken to tribunal (without legal aid) and lost £7,000. Support organisation paid on its indemnity insurance. Case went on for 2 years and Anne went back onto anti-depressants.
Description
Born 1939, Stockport. Educated school for physical handicapped at Bromley Hall. Each playback track is the digitisation of a single side of tape.
Related transcripts
Anne Pridmore interviewed by Anne Austin: full transcript of the interview (PDF)
Related links
'Speaking For Ourselves' project website, including resources, information for schools and news
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Pridmore, Anne (Part 5 of 8) Speaking for ourselves: an oral history of people with cerebral palsy
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