We have reached that interesting stage in the Child-to-Child Vision screening project. The midway report has been written and sent off to the funders. 288 children have been screened and 25 of these require referral to an optometrist. I have put in a funding application for 2020 (and been turned down already – thank you […]
Year: 2019
Cycling without age
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 […]
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 […]