Tag Archives: disability

An organization that specializes in providing people with disabilities with opportunities to get involved in sports said that a trailer full of wheelchairs used to play basketball was stolen sometime over the weekend. Jayden Barrett, a director of SportAbility of Iowa, said there were about a dozen wheelchairs, all purchased through fundraising, inside the small […]

Spend a week or a decade in a wheelchair, chances are you’ll be asked some pretty crazy things. And I get why–people are uncomfortable around things that are different, especially wheelchairs. (Even more so if they don’t know anyone who uses a wheelchair on a personal level). Thoughtless ridiculous things tend to be said, and […]

Usually if someone asks me what I want before a flight the answer is going to be something like, “The gift of no one kicking my seat back repeatedly during the flight” or “A free drink to get me through turbulence.” But a WestJet Santa Claus took it a few jolly steps further. Passengers on […]

A successful Missouri surgeon has beaten unbelievable odds by returning to the OR after suffering sudden paralysis from the waist down. Dr. Ted Rummel lost his ability to walk or stand when a blood-filled cyst on his spine burst in 2010. A year of intense rehabilitation later, he was back in the game. Rummel even […]

In many places, tongue piercings are the very emblem of the edgy and the hip who hang out at the local tattoo parlor. Soon they might be more than a fashion statement: they’ll give mobility to people confined by paralysis to wheelchairs. A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology led by Jeonghee Kim and […]

  Ofte Disclaimer: You must be aware that this post applies to a certain type of people (depending on their conditions). Some employees who use wheelchairs may not require accommodations to their space to perform their work-related duties. Others may only require a small number of these accommodations in order to perform their job. These […]

Pope Francis has greeted hundreds of people in wheelchairs one-by-one. This is part of a special gathering in which rows of seats were removed from a Vatican auditorium to make room for the disabled visitors. The pontiff has made championing the downtrodden a key plank of his papacy. He has lamented that society tends to […]

FOR the millions suffering in the Philippines, any help is a great help. But a Backwell charity is lending a hand in a very specific way – by sending 250 wheelchairs to the devastated country. Earlier this month Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Yolanda, battered the islands with winds of up to […]

A junior high student from Texas stunned the crowd when he walked on the field at his school’s final football game of the season, and what a way to end the season! For 13-year-old Tyler Bain, walking means much more than most people. Tyler suffered from a car accident over 10 years ago that caused […]

Wheelchairs that can be steered by ears may be the next big thing! The technology involves fitting patients with a small chip which monitors muscular movement in the ear and converts it into a signal which then gets passed onto a computer in the wheelchair. Researchers from Göttingen, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe collaborated to create the […]