Merchandise
LapStacker Carrying Machine: Reviewed
The LapStacker secures gadgets in your lap with an easy-to-use strap system. As a guide wheelchair person with restricted hand operate, Cheryl Angelelli exams the gadget to see the way it performs whereas touring, at work and within the grocery retailer.
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Starbucks Improves Accessibility Efforts
A brand new Starbucks in Washington, D.C.’s Union Market District is the primary to include its Inclusive Areas Framework, designed to transcend ADA compliance in creating areas the place everybody feels welcome. New options like wheelchair-friendly counters, redesigned workspaces and open pathways purpose to make shops extra accessible for disabled clients and workers alike.
Bully Pulpit
Deal with Onerous Higher
After assembly a newly injured wheelchair person, NM Editor-in-Chief Ian Ruder began to marvel why life with a incapacity typically will get higher after some years below your belt. Incapacity life doesn’t get simpler, he says, however we get higher at coping with its hassles. And that’s the important thing, studying the best way to “deal with exhausting higher” — so you possibly can get pleasure from all the good things and dwell your life.
Professional Suggestions
Options for Overactive Bladder
Managing a spastic bladder may be one of the crucial irritating elements of residing with SCI. Our resident bladder knowledgeable, Bob Vogel, talks with wheelchair customers to search out out what therapy methods work for them, and we share knowledgeable recommendation and on-line assets to search out options that be just right for you.
Setting Our Personal Definitions of Success
In her newest column, Regan Linton argues that many conventional measures of success don’t align along with her life as a wheelchair person. “The success of our lives ought to be in accordance with the values we set, not people who strangers within the exterior world manipulate us into considering are essential,” she writes.
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