Word: wheelchairs
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...past hour, the attention of a group of wheelchair-bound teenagers in a Seattle auditorium has been completely focused on the man seated in front of them. Such self-control would be unusual for teens in any case; it's even more impressive considering that the speaker is a theoretical astrophysicist. Stephen Hawking has a few advantages, though. For one, the 51-year-old Cambridge University professor is probably the best-known scientist in the world. For another, Hawking is in a wheelchair too, the victim of a degenerative nerve disease that has left him as paralyzed as his youthful...
...doesn't pay enough to cover it. A victim of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS), Hawking can move only some facial muscles and one finger on his left hand, which he uses to pick out words on a computer touch-screen attached to his motorized wheelchair. He can search through the computer's dictionary by selecting the first letter or two of a word or by choosing from a menu of frequently used phrases and sentences...
Some of the dorms are also more accessible to disabled students. Matthews and Greenough both have new elevators and several wheelchair-accessible suites. Matthews also has some wheelchair-accessible bathrooms and Braille on the new number plates for each room...
Some of the dorms are also more accessible to disabled students. Matthews and Greenough both have new elevators and several wheelchair-accessible suites. Matthews also has some wheelchair-accessible bathrooms and Braille on the new number plates for each room...
Soon she could not move at all without being pushed or carried. Dan, now 30, puts it bluntly: "Her day. I'll go from start to finish. In the morning, my dad would get her up, take her out of bed, put her in a wheelchair, wheel her out to the dining-room table. She would have coffee, a cigarette, whatever. They would listen to the radio, my dad would do whatever he had to do, and at around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the radio would be turned off, the TV would come on. Dad would...