Cycling Without Age is a movement started in 2012 by Ole Kassow. Ole wanted to help the elderly get back on their bicycles, but he had to find a solution to their limited mobility. The answer was a trishaw and he started offering free bike rides to the local nursing home residents. He then got […]
Month: November 2019
Budo – martial arts for people with a disability
There is an amazing story behind Budo, and it goes something like this. Lee has been doing martial arts for many years. He is a black belt and totally devoted. About seven years ago he heard about martial arts for people with disability and he travelled to Japan to learn this method from the master. […]
Rehab rockstars (at the conductive education obstacle course)
On this very cold and wet Sunday morning, our amazing occupational therapy students ran an event for the Conductive Education group. I came with my umbrella (and sore ankle) and watched children with celebral palsy in their wheelchairs racing around an obstacle course in the rain – each of them assisted by a team of […]
Vision screening is like herding cats
This is not meant to sound derogatory. I’m not really comparing children to cats but I’m beginning to realise just how difficult it is to get complete coverage of any group that you are trying to screen. It seems to me that on any one day there are at least 10% of children who are […]