Tag Archives: disability

Even though grandparents might have regrets about activities they can no longer do with their grandchildren due to their disabilities, they can provide a valuable learning opportunity to show their grandchildren how to deal with people with disabilities. The relationship between handicapped grandparents and their grandkids is influenced by the beginning of the impairment. Some […]

Bus companies are not required by law to have a policy to force parents with buggies to make way for wheelchair users in designated bays on buses, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The “proper remedy” for wheelchair users to get improvements in such cases is to ask Parliament, three judges ruled. The judges had […]

Mohammad Ouyoun, 21, was trying to get to Union Station to take a Metra train home to Northbrook last year when he came across a problem. Ouyoun said he was at the Merchandise Mart Brown Line stop in River North and asked the CTA customer service agent which stop was closest to Union Station. Taking […]

Sgt. Joe Johnson, who served in Afghanistan, pulled off a wedding surprise his wife, Michelle, will never forget. He joined her for their first dance without a wheelchair! According to WXIN, Joe, 27, suffered a spinal cord injury in a motorcycle accident shortly after returning from overseas. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in […]

After Turbo, the chihuahua born without front legs, captured the Internet’s heart over the summer, he caught the attention of Mark Deadrick, who makes his living designing rocket parts. Deadrick learned about Turbo from Ashley Looper, a veterinary tech who took him in after he was abandoned at four weeks old. At the time, Turbo was […]

There are many reasons not to panic about Ebola. Medical experts have declared the chance of a mass outbreak in the US is negligible, often vastly overstated by politicians and media sensationalism. But if you work at one of the international airports charged with conducting the government’s new Ebola screening program, while you may not have reason […]

A 20-year-old summer intern at chip giant Intel has created an internet-connected wheelchair. The wheelchair collects data to gather information to flag emergencies – for example when a user has slumped forward. It can also monitor that the chair itself is functioning properly. The robotics student, Tim Balz, actually secured a patent for a similar […]

    Tracy Morgan was seen Wednesday afternoon being wheeled into a New York City hospital … and TMZ has learned he might not be ditching the chair anytime soon.   Morgan is still recovering from the horrific car crash back in June when a Walmart truck collided with his van. Sources close to Tracy tell […]

Uber, the ride-sharing company that matches riders with drivers by smart-phone app, will now provide connections to wheelchair-accessible vehicles in Philadelphia, Uber said Monday. Uber has contracted with licensed paratransit drivers who have accessible vehicles, and customers can begin using the service immediately, Uber spokesman Taylor Bennett said Monday. The announcement comes one day before […]

Rice University students have built a unique wheelchair for a Houston teenager who will now be able to row his way forward. Pedro, 15, a patient at Shriners Hospital for Children, Houston, has had arthrogryposis since birth. This congenital disorder causes severe limitation of movement in all of his joints. But Pedro’s path can be […]