Scott Luebking - Cofounder of the Computer Training Project; Advocate and Innovator in Disability and Computer Technology
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Community-based Service Learning Computing Diversity Design Engineering Diversity Engineering Ethics Engineering Management General Engineering, Engineering Science Technology and Society |
| Special Topic(s): |
Persons with Disabilities |
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Teaching - Lecture/Presentation |
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Image |
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Mary Lou Breslin Scott Luebking |
| Description: | Scott Luebking, Cofounder of the Computer Training Project; Advocate and Innovator in Disability and Computer Technology, an oral history conducted by Mary Lou Breslin in 1999-2000, in The Computer Training Project in Berkeley, Accessible Technology, and Employment for People with Disabilities, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2004. "Scott Luebking was interviewed for the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history project because he was the cofounder of the Computer Training Project (CTP), which later became the Computer Technologies Program, in Berkeley, California, and because he has brought a strong computer technology background and perspective to his advocacy, teaching, and consulting activities in the disability rights movement. Born in Palos Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in 1951, Mr. Luebking attended public high school where he excelled in science and mathematics and developed an interest in theater and psychology. After becoming disabled in a diving accident in 1970 between his junior and senior years, Mr. Luebking returned to Knox College in Illinois where he had been studying mathematics, psychology and computer science. He completed his undergraduate degree and came to Berkeley, California, in 1973 to attend graduate school in computer science at the University of California. While a graduate student, Mr. Luebking lived in the Cowell Hospital Residence Program until 1974. An observer of the nascent Berkeley Center for Independent Living, he became involved in various campus and community activities including serving as a speaker for the sexuality and disability program at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1974 he cofounded, with Neil Jacobson, the groundbreaking Computer Training Project with support from the California Department of Rehabilitation. CTP provides computer programming training for people with disabilities that prepares them for jobs with businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. The program was unique because instruction was provided by individuals with disabilities who, along with progressive staff, fostered and encouraged the values and perspectives of independent living. Mr. Luebking worked with CTP until 1976. ' |
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| Keywords: | Scott Luebking universal design disabilities Persons with Disabilities |
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(h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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Inspriational leader for the rights of disabled. "Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to major events in the development of Northern California, the West, and the nation. Oral History is a method of collecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recording is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. The corrected manuscript is indexed, bound with photographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable." |
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Easy |
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Medium |
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| Publication Date: | June 1999 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb4v19n75g&doc.view=frame |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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