Besides finding wheelchair accessible places to go in your wheelchair vans, you want the place you are most comfortable to be accessible as well… your home. There are many areas and ways to make the privacy of your home accessible, but there are also ways to make it look good with current interior design styles. Read more…
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Month: October 2014
The Best of the Best: Wheelchair Costume Ideas
No one likes to be left out or feel different. This isn’t just kids, it’s adults, too. And, when it comes to Halloween with everyone masked, everyone is on the same playing field. And, often times costumes that incorporate a wheelchair can be even better than costumes that don’t. Last year we posted our first-ever Read more…
19-Year-Old With Cerebral Palsy Goes Skydiving
Can you imagine being a wheelchair user and the feeling of skydiving 14,000 feet in the air? Talk about a new level of exhilaration. Well, 19-year-old Matthew Dooley, a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy fell to the earth at 120-200 miles per hour like it was no big deal. Matthew has had cerebral palsy since Read more…
ASU Entrepreneurs Introduce an Elevating Wheelchair
(Image via upwheelchair.com) New innovations are always being introduced to make life easier for wheelchair users and people with disabilities. A team of graduated students from ASU came up with the idea to create “UP Wheelchair”, a cheap and lightweight wheelchair that elevates. The idea rose in the year of 2012, when the 4 ASU Read more…
Mother Urges Disney to Portray Disabled Characters
Disney characters are all about showing inner and outward strength. Most children aspire to be like Disney characters in one way or another, as they look to up to these fictional characters not only as entertainment, but also as role models. Keston Ott-Dahl, a mother from California, has a daughter who suffers from Down syndrome, Read more…
How-to Find Accessible Pool Lifts in Your Area
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been life changing for people with disabilities since its inception in 1990. As you may already know, the main act was put into place as a way to prohibit discrimination of people with disabilities, but since its creation the ADA has expanded to include everything from employment opportunities Read more…
Customer Feature: Mark and His Green Chevy
Today, our very own sales team member, Dan Delie, is taking over the blog to share a story about one of his very first customers and how that very first interaction has lasted 38 years and turned into a friendship. One of the benefits of working at Rollx Vans is the great people we meet Read more…
Reeve Foundation Launches The Big Idea Campaign
The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is excited to announce some breaking news. Today they have officially launched a new campaign called The Big Idea. The mission for this campaign will be working toward redefining what it means to live with spinal cord injury (SCI). The Big Idea is supporting the next phase of research Read more…
Students Design Rowing Wheelchair for 15-Year-Old Boy
Pedro Mendez, a 15-year-old boy from Houston, Texas was born with the rare disease of arthrogryposis, making it impossible for him to use a normal wheelchair. So a team of students decided to make his dream come true. What is Arthrogryposis? Arthrogryposis, also know as arthrogryposis multiplex congenita is a congenital disorder where joints have contractions. Read more…
An Inside Look with Former Model Wendy Crawford
(image via therawbeautyproject.com) When she was just 19 years old, Wendy Crawford was the victim of a drunk driving accident. She had her first international contract as a fashion model and was struck on her way to the airport. Since then, she has been paralyzed. As she grew into her womanhood with a disability, she Read more…