Cory Lee, a wheelchair user and travel blogger, gives tips on how to navigate the world of flying with your wheelchair safely. "If you’re like me, you don’t like something like a wheelchair slowing you down. Whether you’re a world-class…
The U.S. Department of Labor has been celebrating National Disability Education Awareness Month in October for the past 70 years.
It’s Groundhog Day because events keep repeating, the ACA repeal vote keeps coming back up and we keep beating it back and winning!
It’s only been weeks since the Affordable Care Act repeal bill failed in Congress and you made it happen, with your calls, your visits, your emails, your letters, your faxes. You made a difference. When you spoke out to save…
Cory Lee, born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, is a guy who loves to travel. He enjoys traveling by plane, and shares some advice for fellow wheelchair users to assist them on what to do if their mobility device gets damaged…
ABLE accounts assist individuals with disabilities and their families in saving private funds to help maintain health, independence, and quality of life.
United Spinal and its members received a huge legislative win that protects access to complex power wheelchair components such as seat cushions, specialty hand controls, tilt-recline features that many people with SCI/D rely on to live independently.
John Morris knows a thing or two about traveling with a power wheelchair. He’s taken more than 300 flights (with his chair in tow) in the US and abroad. Tips to prevent damage to your power wheelchair: Research. Power wheelchairs are stowed…
When Cody touched down in The District of Columbia from a connecting flight in Houston, she heard words that no wheelchair user wants to hear. “I’m so sorry, but for some reason, your wheelchair never made it on the flight…
It’s no secret that airplane restrooms are a tight squeeze. And sometimes they are impossible for a wheelchair user to even access. When you’re in a wheelchair and you decide to fly, your wheelchair won’t be stored in the cabin…