Ric Edwards - "He's Going to Go to School Here"

Ric Edwards - "He's Going to Go to School Here"

Education

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Family

"The first part of the day I'd be downstairs, the second part they'd carry me up 10 steps, a landing, 10 more steps." Ric Edwards shares the story of his transfer from Culver Military Academy to a school in Spencer, Indiana after he became a wheelchair user due to an automobile accident in 1970. Culver was too far from home for a student with intensive medical needs. The alternative was a school for students with developmental disabilities that was not academically appropriate. Ric was grateful his parents fought for his attendance at his hometown school. He was able to finish his education at Ball State University. Ric was interviewed in 2013.

Indiana Disability History Project

2013

Interviewee - Ric Edwards

Videographer/editor - Peggy Holtz

Interviewer - Phil Stafford

Copyright © 2017 The Trustees of Indiana University

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"Ric Edwards - He's Going to Go to School Here" YouTube video, 00:04:57, interview excerpt 076-mi by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on May 16, 2017, https://youtu.be/Qu2ATTQO_qs

Indiana, Owen County, Spencer

Indiana, Marshall County, Culver

1970 - 1980