We spend a lot of time highlighting different barrier-free vacation spots, activities and even hotels to stay at while you’re traveling with your handicap vans in Illinois. But, what about other barrier-free resources that we don’t often think about? Things such as barrier-free education. Paving the Way in Illinois Just two years ago, the University Read more…
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Chicago Residents: Do You Know About KEEN?
New disability organizations are always surfacing. While it is definitely encouraging that more and more new organizations that assist people with disabilities are surfacing each and every day, sometimes it can be difficult to make yourself aware of each of the different groups in your area. And, finding one that matches exactly what you’re looking Read more…
Taking a Deeper Look into Team Gleason
(Image via teamgleason.org) Raising ALS Awareness One Step at a Time In our last blog post, we talked about Steve Gleason and how he challenged Microsoft to design an eye-controlled wheelchair. Well, besides making a huge impact from encouraging and challenging new technology to allow typing with your eyes and an eye-controlled wheelchair, Steve Gleason Read more…
One Adaptive Sports Association in Illinois Making a Difference
(image via qctimes.com) Adaptive sports are more popular now than they have ever been before. It’s possible this is due to the ever growing number of communities and organizations bringing wheelchair users together to get involved and play sports (either again, or for the very first time). It’s possible this is also due in part Read more…
Air Force Team Trains for the Warrior Games
Get your wheelchair accessible vehicles ready… the Warrior Games are almost here! Team Air Force The Warrior Games team Air Force completed a week-long training camp on August 8, in preparation for the upcoming event. Members of the team trained at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Fort Carson and at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. Read more…
Creating Equal Access for Athletes
You have heard it before, and you will hear it again (at least a few more times)- Staying active keeps you happy and healthy. The challenge with that, though, is staying active is not always the easiest, most convenient or accessible possibility for wheelchair users. More often than not, wheelchair users need expensive custom solutions Read more…
A Portable Exercise Solution for Wheelchair Users
Exercising is not always an easy or fun task to accomplish. This is especially true for wheelchair users because adaptive exercise equipment can be bulky, expensive and often requires additional assistance from a helper or caregiver to use. Plus, if said user does a lot of traveling in their wheelchair van, the equipment cannot be taken Read more…
Fiction Favorites for Children with Disabilities
If you are a parent and your child is feeling down about something, chances are you try everything you can to make them feel better. But, what if the thing they are feeling down about is something you aren’t sure how to explain? Some parents turn to children’s books that explain the answers to difficult Read more…
Do You Have a Favorite MDA Telethon Moment?
There’s one thing that many disability advocate organizations have in common: their mission is to improve the lives of people living with disabilities. The Muscular Dystrophy Association is no exception. One way, in particular, that they’ve been using for nearly half a decade is the MDA Show of Strength Telethon. History in the Making What Read more…
Exoskeleton Approved by FDA
A few months ago, we shared with you the story of a woman named Amanda Boxtel, her journey to never give up and her dreams to walk again. Her dreams were made possible with the assistance of technology. Now, that same dream can become a reality for many other people living with spinal cord injuries Read more…