Social, Relationships, World Around Us

 

Socialization

UD dance class changes lives for people who are wheelchair bound New Castle, Del. - For the moments she spends on the dance floor, 28 year-old Lindsay is in her own world and forgets that she lives with Cerebral Palsy and uses a wheelchair. “When I am on the dance floor I feel like I am a princess with my prince,” Lindsay, of Bear, said. “It makes me feel like I don’t have a disability. I feel like I am using my legs and I am no longer in my wheelchair.” Lindsay has been taking ballroom dance lessons at the University of Delaware for the last two years . . . More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010) Article Posted Here By Timothy A Carey By GateHouse News Service- Dec. 14, 2009  The Entire Article ::: :::

 

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Wheelchair rugby puts athletes back on the team Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Talbot Kennedy became a quadriplegic on the last day of high school. He's still an athlete. Playing rugby has helped Kennedy come to terms with his injury and his new life using a wheelchair. "I've always been active in sports, and being on a sports team, it's almost like you're part of a family," he says. "It's your second family." . . . More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009) Article Posted Here By Timothy A Carey By Leslie Wade, CNN Medical producer- Nov. 16, 2009  The Entire Article ::: :::

 

Relationships and Legal

Disabled mom fighting to keep her son Can a quadriplegic woman be a good parent? Her ex-boyfriend filed a custody suit that says no Kaney O'Neill knows she has limits as a mother. The 31-year-old Des Plaines woman cannot walk, move her fingers independently or feel anything from the chest down. A decade ago, O'Neill was a Navy airman apprentice when she was knocked from a balcony during Hurricane Floyd, leaving her a quadriplegic. When she discovered she was pregnant last December, she felt fear and joy, a journey the Tribune chronicled in August. She quickly embraced the opportunity to raise a child, feeling she had the money and family support to make up for her paralysis. David Trais, her ex-boyfriend and the 49-year-old father of their now 5-month-old son, disagreed that she was up to the challenge. . . . More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009) Article Posted Here By Timothy A Carey The forgot By Sara Olkon- Chicago Tribune- Dec. 20, 2009  The Entire Article :::  ::: Go To Legal Section

 

Socialization

Soccer gives wheelchair users a powerful boost Athletes triumph in club's first season Timothy Donovan cried out with glee as he pushed the oversize soccer ball into the goal with his wheelchair. He then raced to tell his father about his feat. "I like making goals," said Timothy, a student at Russell Elementary School in Quantico. Observing similar moments of triumph led Debbie Locastro to volunteer to help get Fairfax County's first power soccer league off the ground. It is the first competitive team sport designed for power wheelchair users, according to the U.S. Power Soccer Association . . . More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009) Article Posted Here By Timothy A Carey By Kali Schumitz- Fairfax County Times- Dec. 03, 2009  The Entire Article ::: :::

 

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Program helps disabled, at-risk experience joy of ‘normal' Desmond MacRae has been without the use of his legs since 2004. So when I asked him how it felt to achieve his longtime dream of surfing, I expected him to say it felt free or like flying, something along those lines But his answer was even better.. . . More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Saturday,  Dec. 19, 2009) Article Posted Here By Timothy A Carey By Si Cantwell- Dec. 18, 2009  The Entire Article :::  :::

 

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Quadriplegic hunter gets gun permit SOMERVILLE, N.J., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A wheelchair-bound, quadriplegic New Jersey man who waged a 2-1/2-year battle to buy a gun has the right to a firearm permit, a judge ruled Wednesday. . . More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Monday,  Nov. 23, 2009) Article Posted Here By Timothy A Carey By United Press International  The Entire Article :::

 

The World Around Us

Note from DisabilityVoice: this segment has to articles about a nice woman with MS. She is one of the heads an online MS support group. It is on the virtual world Second Life. We have been friends for awhile now. You can go to the support group through this link. Click Here. Please take the time read both of the full article below. The second article is not about this woman, but she is in it.

Sometimes, Freedom Actually Is Free: Soaring Through Life in a Special Space Finding a support group isn’t always easy when leaving the house is hard enough to do. Kathie Olson discovered that for people with disabilities, there’s a way to hit the road without ever leaving your seat. . . .More Article

Real Hope in a Virtual World Online Identities Leave Limitations Behind After suffering a devastating stroke four years ago, Susan Brown was left in a wheelchair with little hope of walking again. Today, the 57-year-old Richmond woman has regained use of her legs and has begun to reclaim her life, thanks in part to encouragement she says she gets from an online "virtual world" where she can walk, run and even dance. . . .More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Monday,  Sept. 28, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey By Timothy A Carey  :::  :::

 

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Second Life Arts 2009: People with Disabilities Able to do Art in the Virtual world On the last Sunday of August, 2009, I teleported to  the Avalon Art District. Teleportation is the quickest mode of transportation in the virtual world Second Life® (SL). (For more information www.SecondLife.com ). This art district is one of the many wonderful places in SL. I was brought there by word of the presentation of a check for $1,000 U.S. dollars to Virtual Ability Incorporated (VAI). (For more information WWW.VirtualAbility.org ) The check was presented by . . .More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Tuesday,  Sept. 15, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey By Timothy A Carey View The Entire Article ::: Go to Originally by Timothy Section

 

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Audio slideshow: Wheelchair bowlers have league of their own at Sabre Lanes in Menasha My first attempt at bowling from a wheelchair didn't go very well. Folks from the Sabre Lanes Roll On Wheelchair Bowling League in Menasha loaned me a spare wheelchair so I could try bowling their way. I brashly figured I could hold my own. How hard could it be?. . .More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Tuesday,  Aug. 10, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey By Kirk Wagner • Post-Crescent Photojournalist • August 7, 2009 View The Entire Article :::

 

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One wheelchair -- one lesson of problems in health care reform By Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston- July, 20 2009 SACRAMENTO, California (CNN) -- Debbie Brown used to process medical and dental forms for a living before a debilitating illness forced her into early disability retirement and left her in a simple, no-frills wheelchair -- a rented wheelchair that has cost taxpayers about $1,200. Brown says the public should be outraged about her wheelchair. Why? She says she could buy a comparable wheelchair on the Internet for $440 if she had the money. It sounded hard to believe that her rented, $1,200 taxpayer-funded wheelchair could be bought for $440, so CNN decided to check -- and instead found an even better deal. CNN went to the same company that charges Medicare for Brown's chair, Apria Healthcare, and bought it for $349 . . .More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Tuesday,  July 28, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey By Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston- CNN Special Investigations Unit View The Entire Article :::

 

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Ms. Wheelchair Indiana’s a Bundle of Energy People who know Emily Munson aren’t surprised to learn that the savvy 24-year-old just happily added yet another activity to a plate that’s already brimming full. Munson is a graduate student and law student at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. She’ll earn her masters degree in bioethics in May; a year down the road she’ll have her law degree. . . .More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Tuesday,  May 12, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey From Quest Magazine Online Story View The Entire Article :::

 

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Don't neglect your fellow human being; many isolated through circumstance Humboldt Beacon-- 04/01/2009 We all know that life is pretty tough out there. People who have held the same job for years are getting laid off, retirement funds are being desecrated, stocks are volatile, and houses impossible to sell or buy. As bad as it is, there is something people all around us are experiencing that is much worse. I'm talking about the people who are “social isolates” who are experiencing . . .More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Friday,  May 01, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey From Humboldt Beacon Story View The Entire Article :::

 

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A Note from DVS: I would just like to say something before you read this article. A battery weighs less than most people do.  Also, I thought this was some kind of April Fools Day joke, but it isn't.

Driver refused access to woman with motorised wheelchair Wednesday 1st April 2009 A DISABLED woman travelled three miles home in her motorised wheelchair with her grandson on her knee, after she was refused access to the bus. Ann Sampson was allowed to board the Network Colchester service from the Greenstead estate to the town centre, with Taylor, aged two, on her lap. But when she tried to get on for the return trip, the 73-year-old, who suffers with rheumatoid arthritis, was . . .More Article

(Article on DisabilityVoice, Saturday,  April 11, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey From http://www.gazette-news.co.uk in England View The Entire Article :::

 

Relationships

A Note from DVS: Here is a series of articles. I think they are very inspirational.

Article #1: January 20, 2009 Rosalie and me: two in a wheelchair The first of a new weekly series on the realities of life as a disabled father One of the effects of Rosalie growing up and becoming more mobile is that I have lost my justification for using the car on short journeys. My rationale used to go something like this: she can't walk far, and she could run out into the road. Because of this, when we are out she needs to sit on my lap, which makes pushing my wheelchair very hard work and restricts how far we can go “on foot”. But now she is a little girl (NO, Dad. I'm a big girl) and can walk on her own, as well as . . .More Article

Article #2: January 27, 2009 View Article Another Article: January 13, 2009  View Article Latest Article: March 10, 2009   View Article   (Article on DisabilityVoice, Wednesday, March 11, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey From Times Online By Tim Rushby-Smith :::

 

The World Around Us Tyler Eklund enjoys "awesome" return to the slopes 'A dream come true, pretty much,' says smiling teen Feb 15, 2009 07:15 PM CST It's been almost two years since he was paralyzed in a snowboarding fall, but on Sunday, Bend High School student Tyler Eklund got back up on the slopes for the first time. With friends and family surrounding him at Mt. Bachelor, it was a monumental day for the 16-year-old. An up-and-coming snowboarder, Eklund was becoming known for his skills in the half-pipe and big air combinations. Two years ago, . . .More Article Additional Material: Make sure to play the video.    Visit Oregon Adaptive Sports (Article on DisabilityVoice, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey By Nina Mehlhaf, KTVZ.COM View The Entire Article :::

 

The World Around Us Award Winning Documentary "Darius Goes West" Award Winning Documentary Coming To El Paso, Texas January 28, 2009 Where would you go if you’d never been away from home? What would you do if you didn’t have much time left? DARIUS WENT WEST! Meet 15-year-old Darius Weems from Athens, Georgia, who was born with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), the most common fatal genetic disorder to affect children worldwide. In 2000, Darius watched his beloved older brother, Mario, pass away from the same disease at age 19. Soon after, Darius lost use of the muscles in his legs and began using a wheelchair. A group of Darius’s college-age friends felt there was no need for his quality of life to disintegrate along with his muscles....More Article Additional Material: This sample trailer of his trip video is very touching.  It almost put tears in my eyes. They call it the vehicle instead of the trailer and you will find out why. Darius Goes West DVD Trailer You can find information about his DVD by going to the web site set up for him.  You can purchase it from there also. Darius Goes West Article on DisabilityVoice, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey View The Entire Article :::

 

The World Around Us Disabled man's crusade a bane to business owners By Carol J. Williams - Los Angeles Times January 5, 2009 Lingering fog shrouds the Venice boardwalk midday as Thomas Mundy rolls past ice cream vendors, T-shirt shacks and falafel stands, a discerning eye trained on the warrens of beach-themed kitsch and quick nibbles. He's not looking for leather thong pendants or Jamaican trinkets in memory of Bob Marley, or to commune with the manic crowd of in-line skaters and street artists. Mundy is trolling for barriers to his patronage -- a threshold too high for his wheelchair, a parking lot with blue-striped access lanes narrower than eight feet, a public restroom where the coat hook on the back of the door, if there is one, is above his reach. One fighter in a burgeoning army of crusaders for disabled access, Mundy says he has filed more than 150 lawsuits in 18 months demanding....More Article (Article on DisabilityVoice, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey By Carol J. Williams - Los Angeles Times View The Entire Article :::

 

Socialization and Helping Aids Creature Comforts By REBECCA SKLOOT Published: December 31, 2008. ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN A SUBURB of Albany , a group of children dressed as vampires and witches ran past a middle-aged woman in plain clothes. She gripped a leather harness — like the kind used for Seeing Eye dogs — which was attached to a small, fuzzy black-and-white horse barely tall enough to reach the woman’s hip. “Cool costume,” one of the kids said, nodding toward her. But she wasn’t dressed up. The woman, Ann Edie, was fueling order that simply blind and out for an evening walk with Panda, her guide miniature horse. ....More Article (Article on DisabilityVoice, Wednesday, Jan. 07, 2009) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey By REBECCA SKLOOT View The Entire Article ::: Go to Assistive Tech Section

 

The World Around Us  Wheelchair users can now enjoy the beach Steve Wettenhall MP, Member for Barron River saw first hand how four brand new “beach wheelchairs” shipped from France will....More Article (Article on DisabilityVoice, Saturday, December 6 , 2008) Article Posted By Timothy A Carey View The Entire Article :::

 

 

The World Around Us  Lynn man makes trip across U.S. in wheelchair By Chelsea Reil / For The Item LYNN - Matt Eddy, 31, has had a dream of seeing the country all of his life. Every six months, he would get the idea in his head, but dismiss it as a dream that would never be. But today, that dream becomes a reality when the Lynn resident will be in Long Beach, Calif., after a 119-day trek across the country. But there's one major difference between Eddy's trip and most cross-country journeys: Eddy rolled across America in his wheelchair....More Article (Article on DisabilityVoiceSpace, Sunday, November 23 , 2008) Article By Chelsea Reil and Posted By Timothy A Carey View The Entire Article ::: Official Matt Eddy's Website

World Around Us  Making nature accessible Teen creates reliable Web site for hikers using wheelchairs Chris Trzcinski loves to hike, and the 15-year-old from Southern California wants to share his hiking information with other people. So he created...More Article (Article on DisabilityVoiceSpace, Monday, October 14, 2008) Article By HEATHER DORSEY and Posted By Timothy A Carey View The Entire Article ::: Wheelchair Hikes Website  :::

 

Social and The World Around Us Maximizing Skilled Assertiveness What is the difference between skilled and unskilled assertiveness? How can we maximize skilled assertiveness? How can we learn to interact better with each other using a method for teaching assertiveness to children with disabilities? How can people with disabilities become more assertive? It all started out with... More Article::  (Article on DisabilityVoiceSpace, September, 05, 2008 ) Article Written and Posted by Timothy A Carey

 

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