The Lincoln Center, a special education branch of Wyandotte Public Schools, recently posted a fundraising initiative on GoFundMe in pursuit of assistive educational technologies for their students with cognitive impairments, autism spectrum disorders, and emotional impairments. The posting, which expressed
Grand Rapids’ Mary Free Bed Rehab Hospital Serves Additional 3,000 Patients
This afternoon, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital will open the doors to their new 190,000 square foot rehabilitation building. This new 87-bed expansion will allow an additional 3,000 patients to receive acute care and sub-acute care services each year. Not
Detroiter’s 21-Mile Commute Draws Attention to City’s Inadequate Public Disability Transportation
James Robertson’s grueling daily commute not only draws attention to America’s failure to accommodate its poor working class, but it poses an opportunity to examine the additional challenges on those citizens living with disabilities. While Robertson himself is not disabled,
Michigan Adaptive Athletes Gather for Challenge Mountain’s 30th Anniversary
For most Michiganders, this weekend’s snowstorms offered an excuse to indulge in the comforts of the indoors. But not for the dozens of adaptive winter athletes participating in adaptive skiing, snowboarding, sledding, snowshoeing, and other outdoor activities at Challenge Mountain’s
Classifying Cerebral Palsy: Limb Involvement
Classifying Cerebral Palsy Based on Limb Involvement In our last blog post “Classifying Cerebral Palsy: Motor Function,” we discussed how cerebral palsy diagnoses are classified into different types based on impairments to motor skill ability. Today we’re going to introduce