[misc.handicap] Help Needed From England

Bill.Baughn@f10.n130.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Baughn) (08/10/90)

Index Number: 9694

The Volunteers for Medical Engineering of Texas are designing an
electric wheelchair for one of our members who is a quadrilateral
amputee.  The chair will have a seat which will go to the floor -
allowing her to leave the chair unassisted - and elevate to allow
eye contact with persons who are standing.  Her standard electric
provides horizontal mobility but this design will give her vertical
mobility as well.

In the late seventies, a young thalidomide survivor from England,
visited this country.  I saw newspaper photographs of him at this
time and his chair, which I believe was built by his father, seemed
to be the exact design we are looking for.  If anyone knows how we
can contact this young man or his parents, or has any information
on the type of chair we are contemplating.  Please leave a message
in this echo or send a Netmail message to me at:  (1:130/10)

We are aware of a child's chair called the Turbo but this is a
$9,000 monument to poor design.

All The Best,

Bill Baughn (1:130/10)

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