Products
LapStacker Carrying Device: Reviewed
The LapStacker secures items on your lap with an easy-to-use strap system. As a manual wheelchair user with limited hand function, Cheryl Angelelli tests the device to see how it performs while traveling, at work and in the grocery store.
Access
Starbucks Improves Accessibility Efforts
A new Starbucks in Washington, D.C.’s Union Market District is the first to incorporate its Inclusive Spaces Framework, designed to go beyond ADA compliance in creating spaces where everyone feels welcome. New features like wheelchair-friendly counters, redesigned workspaces and open pathways aim to make stores more accessible for disabled customers and employees alike.
Bully Pulpit
Handle Hard Better
After meeting a newly injured wheelchair user, NM Editor-in-Chief Ian Ruder started to wonder why life with a disability often gets better after some years under your belt. Disability life doesn’t get easier, he says, but we get better at dealing with its hassles. And that’s the key, learning how to “handle hard better” — so you can enjoy all the good stuff and live your life.
Pro Tips
Solutions for Overactive Bladder
Managing a spastic bladder can be one of the most frustrating parts of living with SCI. Our resident bladder expert, Bob Vogel, talks with wheelchair users to find out what treatment strategies work for them, and we share expert advice and online resources to find solutions that work for you.
Setting Our Own Definitions of Success
In her latest column, Regan Linton argues that many traditional measures of success don’t align with her life as a wheelchair user. “The success of our lives should be in accordance with the values we set, not those that strangers in the outside world manipulate us into thinking are important,” she writes.
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