Articles Tagged ‘Wheelchair’
Amelia is 4 years old and lives in the centre of Exeter. She really loves arts and 
crafts, playing with her friends, horse riding and making people laugh.
In 2007 Amelia was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II. This neuromuscular condition affects people in different ways. Amelia was able to walk on her own until she was 18 months old, when her condition deteriorated and she now needs a wheelchair to move around independently.
In June 2009 Amelia was given her ‘Koala’ Permobil powered wheelchair, through the support of The Priority Trust. As soon as she received the chair, she worked out the controls and just got on with using …
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Guess what??!! The car broke down again last night. The same problem as last time, no battery and just wouldn’t start. I think quite rightly I have ranted on this recurring subject. However I promised myself these posts would not let me get too down or angry but explain the positives of the trials and tribulations I go through. The quick update is that it has gone to a different garage who I hope will sort this once and for all by the end of the week. Taxis to get to work until then.
What I do want to do is an overarching blog on transport bouncing off of an interesting book I’m reading. Its by Ben Elton and called …
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At work I often deliver training on the issues faced by disabled people and I find there are many who do not see why there are issues for disabled people.
When I explain why, they then ask why others are not doing more. Here, I want to explain this ‘issue’ for anyone else who just hasn’t had the bigger picture explained to them.
For me, I didn’t really see an ‘issue’ either when growing up. Sure I worried about leaving my primary school mates to go to the only accessible secondary school 20 miles away. Sure my wheelchair broke down and it distressed me being stuck. Sure I worried if girls would accept my disability in relationships. But the point …
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A little while ago I was looking to buy a new powered wheelchair. After receiving demonstrations from various companies, I never felt entirely convinced that I was receiving the full picture on whatever I may end up purchasing. A salesman is unlikely to say much about the bad features!
I searched the internet to see if I could find any views or thoughts about particular wheelchairs, but only ended up finding a scattering of blog / message board postings and a handful of sites with some generic comments on particular individual wheelchairs.
I found this quite surprising, since it is possible to find detailed user reviews for nearly every product imaginable, but yet could not find anything particularly substantive or informative for …
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Keira, a three-year old girl has recently been provided with her first powerchair, with the help of Priority. The SnapDragon powerchair, made with her specific requirements in mind will help her develop and be as independent as possible.
In September 2008, when the Occupational Therapist from Dragonmobility first met Keira at the request of Keira’s OT, she was shy, withdrawn and clinging. She had undergone a lot of medical interventions in her short life, and at the age of 2 had a natural tendency to cry and ask for cuddles when presented with anything new.
Keira has an undiagnosed neuromuscular condition which causes severe weakness, particularly in …
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Apologies for being away from my blogs. I had a much needed break in Lanzarote back at easter, while following on from this I have set up new fundraising campaigns and sponsored events at Scope. On top of this I have been looking at running for local council next year. Anyway needless to say lifes been busy but here’s a blog from the holiday.
Having travelled to the Canary Islands many times before this wasn’t a difficult journey in terms of disability related. However there are a couple of things I’d like to touch on.
Firstly the reason I have been so many time to these islands (beyond more guaranteed sunshine) actually is wheelchair related. Whenever in the past I have looked …
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Hello! My name is Srin and I am 23 years old. I have a disability called Spinal Muscular Atrophy and I use a powered wheelchair to get around in the world. I graduated from King College London in 2003 and I now work as trainee solicitor at a major corporate law firm in the City of London and live in central London.
I will be using this blog to share some of my experiences of major transitional periods of my life, which are faced by many, but involve unique challenges faced by those with disabilities. The first such period for me involves moving from home to live at university.
I started making preparations for moving to uni back in the summer of …
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May 2008 – Working on the noisy, frenetic trading desk at Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s London offices on Fleet Street earlier this decade, Kieran Prior and John Yeatts, two bright and ambitious 20-somethings from very different worlds, became close friends. Prior, a gregarious, wisecracking proprietary trader from the gritty outer suburbs of Manchester, took a liking to the soft-spoken Yeatts, a first-year financial analyst and native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though Prior, then 23, was just a year older than Yeatts when they met in 2002, he enjoyed dispensing practical advice, teasing the American about his Saturday night dates and taking him out for pints of beer after work.
Yeatts returned the favor. …
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