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Wheelchair Sports, Recreation, and Accessible Travel

The United Spinal Association provides a list of resources related to accessible travel, adaptive recreation and hobbies, adaptive sports, programs for kids with disabilities, arts for wheelchair users, and camps for special needs populations. The list allows a user to search programs by category or state.

http://web.archive.org/web/20181119192434/http://www.usatechguide.org/articledisplay.php?artid=22

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Posted by: egauger17 on Tue Nov 24, 2020 at 11:26 a.m.

I think this website had the potential to be very useful, however when I copy and paste the link into a new tab, it comes up as a internet archive capture, which leads me to believe the URL is not the most up to date. After a quick google search I found https://www.spinalcord.org/ and https://askus-resource-center.unitedspinal.org/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=249 which appear to be the more recent versions of this source. It is unfortunate that they don't seem to have all the resources/products/services a state offered in one place and that it takes a little digging to find everything available in your state.

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It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability