• Title
  Item 1: Dorothy Harrington interview by Sue Andersen, 25 March 2010
• Call number
  MLOH 877/1-2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  25 March 2010
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9638588
• Physical Description
  2 sound discs (1 hr, 55 min.) - digital - + 1 printed transcript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Dorothy Elizabeth Harrington (1932-2022) lived in the Newcastle, New South Wales, area all her life. Her son Paul, who has Down syndrome, lived at the Stockton Centre for 23 years before moving to a group home in 1990. She has had a long association with the Stockton Centre as the parent of a resident, a founding member of the local foster grandparents scheme and a member of the Stockton Hospital Welfare Association. In 1991 she received a Premier's Award for outstanding service to community in NSW and in 1993 she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to people with intellectual disability and the RSL ANZAC of the Year award.
  
  Reference:
  Compiled from the collection
  Ryerson Index
• Collection history
  Recorded at Frenchs Forest, New South Wales, on 25 March 2010
• Scope and Content
  Oral history interview with Dorothy Harrington, conducted by Sue Andersen and transcribed by Kerrie McGovan. Dorothy Harrington talks about: her son Paul, who was diagnosed at birth with Down syndrome; Paul's move to Watt Street Children's Hospital in Newcastle at the age of five and then to the Stockton Centre aged 13; the caring and compassionate staff and residents at both institutions; the changes in accommodation at the Stockton Centre from dormitories to cottages and trials of living in the community; Paul's successful move to his present home in a rural area; the Richmond Report and reactions from Stockton Centre staff and parents and the local community; seeing a program about the Foster Grandparents Scheme in Victoria and being inspired to set up a similar program for Stockton; developing the program in 1985 and later extending it to include Kanangra at Morisset Hospital; her involvement with the Stockton Hospital Welfare Association; and the awards she has received in recognition of her work.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: Life of creator plus 70 years
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  
  For preservation and access with permission, oral history CD masters converted to WAV files and transcript converted to PDF file
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Harrington, Dorothy, 1932-2016
  McGovan, Kerrie
  
• Subject
  Parents of children with disabilities--Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE15834559

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