You may have seen vehicle wheelchair lifts where a person in a wheelchair can just roll onto a platform and then be lifted up into the car or van with ease. This makes it easier on the person in the wheelchair as well as the driver and it's especially handy during emergency when time is of the essence.

So what would you use something like this for? There are many uses as people bound to wheelchairs cannot climb stairs or get around other obstacles like people who have full...

With the advent of advanced technologies and gadgets, life has become easy and comfortable.Fully automatic residential elevatorsprovide a great deal of independence to mobility impaired individuals. Several models of automatic residential elevators are available from various manufacturers for new as well as existing houses. One of the major advantages of residential elevators is that these can be installed without altering the existing structure too much.

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I am hoping you will find my story to be helpful for you. There were two aspects that completely helped me through my academic experience.

When I got into high school math, I had trouble writing numbers in a format where I would remember which number was in which line making it increasingly difficult for me to find the correct answer to the problem. Yes, dyslexia has its share of problems, but it can also have an interesting way of giving an individual a different perspective...

If you need extra support on your back in your wheelchair, you have many different options available for you on your wheelchair back cushion. You can choose from a simplistic forty dollar wheelchair back cushion or spend several hundred dollars on a full top of the line all the bells and whistles wheelchair back cushions. The key to spending the right amount is figuring out what you want and need, and then making sure that your wheelchair back cushion has what you need.

Hasan A. Yahya, Ph.D

Have you asked your self one day: Why the left foot always follows the right foot, or vise versa? You see this is a habitual action every person on earth does it regularly without questioning his/her mind or legs. Isn’t it amazing if the decision was made by your feet for itself without your permission? What if your feet rebelled  over your guaranteed permission to move?  Ya!, in case you’re handicapped or Physically...

I would answer questions in a "jumbled" fashion and yet the teachers never understood what was happening in my mind. It can be the difference of failure or success for the individual suffering with this debilitating ailment.

Stop Dyslexia Learning Difficulties

In addition, teachers have to "revamp" their classroom routine to help dyslexic students and when they have a "schedule" to keep, they are anything but interested and motivated...

Toilet Training the Anxious Child

Toilet training can be difficult at the best of times but toilet training an anxious child can be very frustrating and at times one can find oneself not understanding why or what is happening.  In most cases, children with anxiety toilet train for going number one but for a bowel movement they would rather wear a diaper.  They feel they are losing a part of themselves when their bowl movement is flushed away or they are afraid to let go...

Even though I understood biological and chemical principles, the way I thought about math problems so differently that it made it hard for me to communicate my thoughts about a given topic with my chemistry or biology professors.

Adult Dyslexia Test

Personally, I believe teachers will sometimes overlook dyslexia because it takes more energy out of their class schedules to help a student learn. The frustration of it runs rampant through these groups. A. Of course,...

Auditory dyslexia, also known as dysphonetic dyslexia, is a disorder that affects a person's ability to distinguish individual letter sounds within words.  Usually there is nothing wrong with the person's hearing, but the brain is unable to correctly process the sounds it receives.  While visual dyslexics can have trouble identifying written letters, auditory dyslexics have the same kind of problems hearing letter sounds.  Some of the symptoms are:

• Difficulty...

Stairliftsare a relief to mobility impaired individuals and help them to easily access the different floors in their homes and offices. In the olden days, physically disabled people employed caretakers to assist them in climbing stairs. But caretakers are expensive to maintain; moreover, the presence of another person constantly at one’s side might seriously affect the privacy of individuals. With the arrival of stair lifts, physically disabled people began to usestairliftsfor...