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Like reading a poem, Sue Austin’s presentation on ‘TED talks’, brings about a sense of humility and accomplishment, her experience as a wheelchair user is presented in a bright light as she challenges the idea of disability as a personal detriment. Austin is the founder of Freewheeling, an organization aiming to further develop the community […]

Congress adjourned early Tuesday morning without renewing funding for the federal government and the White House issued orders beginning the grim task of shutting down “nonessential” services across the nation. Senators gave up first, adjourning soon after midnight, while House lawmakers stuck it out past 1 a.m. But with a middle ground proving elusive and […]

Feb. 20 was supposed to be a big day for the Scooter Store. And it was – for the wrong reason. Company executives were confident they had found a lender willing to refinance the financially distressed distributor of power-mobility devices and scooters. The bank’s credit committee in Dallas was set to review the loan that day. Scooter […]

Top 5 Wheelchair Blogs Top Wheelchair Blogs are places where individuals are encouraged to write posts and to keep track of their everyday lifestyle, dealing with disabilities in some form, or another, and expressing their thoughts relating to the social aspects of disability and the taboos that surround the disability community. The wheelchair blog community […]

By GITTE LAASBY, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL Coca-Cola is in hot water with a consumer whose daughter opened a Vitamin Water bottle with the message “You retard” on the cap. The man has another daughter with cerebral palsy. The messages were part of a Coke promotion in Canada that randomly paired English and French words that together […]

When nine-year-old Homewood resident Chloe Ochoa had a hard time finding books with kids in wheelchairs, she decided to fix the problem by writing one herself. Chloe has been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) type III, which is a degenerative neuromuscular disease. Because of it, she cannot walk on her own, and her arms […]

[dropcap style=”inverted”]What would you do with Google Glass?[/dropcap]     The company asked the public that question, with the hashtag #ifihadglass, to help find testers for its “explorer” program. Though those applications are closed, one local engineer from Wayfair posted on Google+ last month a fascinating idea with potential social impact: use it to allow physically […]

Sex assistants or surrogate partners are usually professionals, male and female, who help people with physical-motor disabilitiies, as well as those with cognitive/psychological problem, to have an erotic and/or sexual experience. In order to get to know a profession that is still not widely known in Italy or many other European countries, we spoke to Lorenzo Fumagalli, […]

UAB students invent a wheelchair that helps disabled children get moving By Marie Sutton When Jennifer Sheppard learned that University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering students created a motorized wheelchair for 1- to 3-year-olds, she was eager to let her daughter give it a try. Mary Graham, 2, was born with scoliosis, hip dysplasia and muscular […]

There are many different types of disabilities, therefore, when making changes to adjust a home for someone with a disability , you first need to consider what type of disability it is, the individual’s specific needs, then the dimensions to follow based on disability access laws. Here are some things to consider when adjusting the home to […]