Easier

If you travel with a disability, handicap, physical limitation, mobility limitation, or developmental disability, have special needs, or use an electric wheelchair or handicap scooter, it’s a good idea to learn as much as you can to make disabled travel easier.

Or if you’re a mature traveler or senior who is a slow walker or just [...]

Adaptive Skiing – “Sliding” on down

Anne Rader skis.

Down mountains in Colorado. With MS. And Cerebral Palsy.

With a little help from a “slider”.  And skiing instructor Asa McKee.

Watch to see how she does it. And to find out what a slider is.

Artificial intelligence aid for dementia sufferers

A form of artificial intelligence has been designed to help make life easier for people with dementia.

Researchers have developed a computer system that reminds patients about their daily appointments.

The computer-generated face known as MANA can talk, recognise faces and turn itself on when someone enters a room.

MANA, or Memory Appointment and Navigation Agent, is designed [...]

Care worker sentenced in death of client who he put in hot bath

A British Columbia home-care worker who put a client in a scalding hot bath and failed to get the man medical attention has been sentenced to three years in prison for the client’s eventual death.

Raymond Brent Storie was convicted of criminal negligence causing the death of Wayne Walters, who had cerebral palsy and cognitive defects.
Storie [...]

He’s Fallen Down… and Gets Up

Nick Vujicic has fallen down.

And can’t get up.

Yet.

He may try a hundred times, but he always gets up.

So what, you may think?

Nick has no arms or legs, that’s what.

Watch how Nick gets up:

Visit Nick’s website at www.LifeWithoutLimbs.org

Disability No Block to this Graduate!

Jasmine Bethea may have been born with a disability, one where she was told she would not even be able to learn, but that did not stop her from graduating this week. She has proven her doctors and everyone else wrong, not only graduating – but doing so with honors. Jasmine’s doctors had told her [...]