More employers in Singapore are hiring workers with physical or intellectual disabilities. This encouraging trend is being facilitated by a government fund set up to promote the hiring of older or disabled persons. Under this scheme, employers can benefit from a subsidy…
A friend asked me to share what I wish I had been told at the beginning when my daughter Beth was injured. She has a cut spinal cord at C6-7. My first list shared three thoughts: Breathe deeply. Hug. Rest. Repeat. Find…
Bill Miller is a C1/C2 ventilator-dependent quadriplegic who was injured in 1997. He credits the CoughAssist machine as what has kept his lungs healthy for nearly two decades. “I have not had any respiratory-related hospitalizations since being discharged from Shepherd Center in 1997,”…
Do you love to cook? Bob, a paraplegic, demonstrates a few adaptive tools and techniques he’s used to make preparing food a little easier and safer from a wheelchair. https://youtu.be/G0EeOvFn6Qo First, Bob makes note of an apron he’s fashioned for himself that has…
Jen is a T10/11 paraplegic, and she’s demonstrating skills she’s picked up along the way to help her become independent as a college student. https://youtu.be/FWDmWHHp0_E Jen explains the hand controls she recently had installed on her vehicle. “I steer with one hand…
Individuals with paralysis above the C5 level often require mechanical ventilation in order to breathe. Factors that affect breathing function Regardless of the nature of the paralysis, whether it occurs from injury or from disease, the two factors that most…
Kristin is a T9 paraplegic and demonstrates how she drives a vehicle using hand controls. https://youtu.be/eSUjDNgDA1U The hand trigger or throttle is mounted on the left side of the steering wheel. Kristin controls the hand trigger her left hand. She pulls it…
Let’s face it – everyone gets older. And with aging, our bodies and minds change. People with spinal cord injuries know this all too well. https://youtu.be/KsM0Ertd5jM Curtis, a quadriplegic, is concerned about aging with a spinal cord injury. What is…
John was just 23 years old when his invincibility came to an abrupt end. A motor vehicle collision and the resulting flames from the accident ravaged his body, leaving three of his limbs irreparable. John’s right hand and both legs…
George Scola was thirty-nine when he walked across sweltering South Africa from Beitbridge to Cape Point, roughly Maine to Florida. Just two years earlier, he had been paralyzed by a stroke, then overwhelmed with depression at losing his body, speech,…