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  2. Custom made by Tulane students, mobility chairs help special ...

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    Special needs children like these often take longer than most to become independently mobile, which can be a hardship for parents and others who care for them. Elijah is often carried because of ...

  3. Assistive technology - Wikipedia

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    Children with disabilities have challenges in accessing play and social interactions. [26] Play is essential for the physical, emotional, and social well-being of all children. [27] The use of assistive technology has been recommended to facilitate the communication, mobility, and independence of children with disabilities. [28]

  4. Mind-controlled wheelchair - Wikipedia

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    A mind-controlled wheelchair is a motorized wheelchair controlled by a brain–computer interface.Such a wheelchair could be of great importance to patients with locked-in syndrome (LIS), in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except the eyes.

  5. Wheelchair - Wikipedia

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    A man with a disability sitting in a wheelchair. A wheelchair is a mobilized form of chair using 2 or more wheels, a footrest, and an armrest usually cushioned. It is used when walking is difficult or impossible to do due to illnesses, injury, disabilities, or age-related health conditions.

  6. Motorized wheelchair - Wikipedia

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    Disability rights activists are campaigning for prescription procedures to focus on an individual needs-based assessment rather than on inflexible application of prescription rules. The restricted prescribing leads to many users being forced to procure a solution privately, in some cases settling for a powerchair or a mobility scooter that is ...

  7. The new Lego Friends characters have physical and invisible ...

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    Psychotherapist James Miller says there are important benefits to playing with toys that represent disability in a positive light for both disabled and non-disabled children.