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...squat." His kids, now 13 and 15, are deteriorating daily. This summer he hopes to move his family from Florida to California, where he spends most of his time, but first he will need to retrofit a house "for two teenagers in power wheelchairs who can't control their motor skills very well, so they take out huge chunks of drywall." When his boys ask their father about his work, Margus is honest. "Quinn is quite tough on me," Margus says. "He asks what those researchers are doing. And candidly, I have to say that we've failed...
Gardening is also an excellent tool for physical rehabilitation because it uses large and small muscles and fine and gross motor skills. Linda Ciccantelli, who founded the HT program at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia, works in the hospital's lush rooftop greenhouse with patients who have suffered spinal-cord and head injuries as well as strokes. "When people have a devastating illness, you try to tap into something they want to do," she says. "I have seen standing tolerances improve while people are planting. When you are in the flow of an activity, you aren't as aware...
Squealing with delight, Bobby Chazen, 2, hops into a miniature 1957 Corvette and leans on the horn. Then he spins the steering wheel, flips on the radio and, giggling, steps on the gas pedal. Bobby has become an expert at putting his motor skills through their paces in the candy-red car, having been to its home, the Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tenn., "nearly 100 times" since he was 5 months old. "When he knows we're going to the museum," Bobby's mom Candace Chazen says, "his eyes light up, and he puts on his little shoes...
...that kids learn best through play. "Some visitors assume it's all about fun and games," says Portia Hamilton-Sperr, who founded Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum, "but behind this there's a lot of serious research about how kids learn." Accordingly, museums are devising exhibits to build the motor skills and stimulate the creativity of their littlest visitors...
...single motor scooter driving through Paris in the middle of the night can wake up as many as 200,000 people"? Oh, to be awakened like that in Paris! Anything would be better than the Harley-Davidson hell where I live. MARK JONAS Columbia, Calif...