Always ask someone with lived experience, if you can. (Disabilities, discrimination, safety...)
With wheelchairs, able-bodied folk often think of doorways and ramps... but will often forget or not think of things like doors that are inoperable by positioning of furniture, steepness of ramps, height of chairs being easier/harder to get into, the fact that cobblestones/brick/sand are inacessable, bathroom logistics, and so on.
Also, accommodations will be different for electric and manual chirs,as well as for different kinds of disability.
A paraplegic athlete has very different needs than, say, someone with severe TBI. Different patients with TBI can have an astonishing variety of mobility and ability.
(I am able-bodied, and picked up most of this info by social osmosis. Therefore, I've probably missed something...or several somethings.)
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2021-05-04 12:39 am (UTC)With wheelchairs, able-bodied folk often think of doorways and ramps... but will often forget or not think of things like doors that are inoperable by positioning of furniture, steepness of ramps, height of chairs being easier/harder to get into, the fact that cobblestones/brick/sand are inacessable, bathroom logistics, and so on.
Also, accommodations will be different for electric and manual chirs,as well as for different kinds of disability.
A paraplegic athlete has very different needs than, say, someone with severe TBI. Different patients with TBI can have an astonishing variety of mobility and ability.
(I am able-bodied, and picked up most of this info by social osmosis. Therefore, I've probably missed something...or several somethings.)