Monday, March 18, 2024

Tag: Independence

Archer’s Challenge Has Able-Bodied People Use Wheelchairs to Highlight Inaccessibility

This week, hundreds of able-bodied people in Austin, Texas, will spend the day in a wheelchair to raise awareness of the accessibility issues people...

Gesture-controlled Internet of Things (IoT) extends freedom for the disabled

Quadriplegics can do more on their own with the Sesame Enable app that uses head gestures to control Internet of Things (IoT) devices Christopher Reeve...

Device helps paralyzed patients operate laptop with their eyes

The movement of limbs comes so fluidly and effortlessly for many of us that it is easy to take for granted. But those who...

FDA Clears Parker’s Indego® Exoskeleton for Clinical, Personal Use

State-of-the-Art Device Allows Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury to Stand and Walk; Regulatory Clearances in USA and Europe Pave the Way for Commercialization CLEVELAND, March...

Governor Proposes Legislation To Change Handicapped Parking Symbol

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is on board with changing the handicapped parking symbol on signs throughout the state. Jonathan Slifka, the governor’s liaison to...

Center for Neuro Recovery

Center for Neuro Recovery is the nation’s leading functional movement exercise facility with the most state-of-the-art researched-backed equipment to date. Center for Neuro Recovery’s®...
Kenneth Jennings was paralyzed in a football accident

Paralyzed ex-football player celebrates injury’s anniversary: ‘I was reborn on that day’

Kenneth Jennings doesn't see why he shouldn't celebrate the day he took his final steps and moved his arms for the last time. He even...

Paralyzed veterans empowered with new independence

After serving our country, all veterans come back as our nation’s heroes. But some return with serious injuries and need assistance becoming whole again.

Paralyzed man keeps busy driving for Uber

Luigi Girotto, of Rye, N.Y., drives his Uber van through the streets of Greenwich. Girotto is a quadriplegic and offers rides to clients with special transportation needs in his wheelchair-accessible van. His van has special driving controls that make it possible to operate with a limited range of motion.

The iPhone setting that changed this man’s life

Todd Stabelfeldt is sending his wife a romantic text. He taps his chin on a button mounted on his wheelchair, then grins, pleased with his wooing. A quadriplegic since he was 8, Stabelfeldt can't move anything below his neck. Now a 36-year-old engineer and business owner, he's turned his wheelchair into a powerful mobile communication hub using switches, a Bluetooth headset and an iPhone 6.