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4:52 pm on Monday July 8, 2013
Disabled girl denied access to Savannah museum over dirtying carpets
4:45 am on Saturday May 19, 2012
Hunting Island campground improves handicap access
Flickr User greenkayak73
Great news for those that use a wheelchair to access Hunting Island State Park.
The park has recently installed concrete pads in the campground to faciliate access to handicapped and wheelchair users.
The WSAV article,...
5:43 am on Sunday November 14, 2010
Meet the iBot enhanced wheelchair, and locals that worry about its loss
Flickr user jbrownell
The stability of the chair is often shown off.
Think of an iBot as a Segway meets wheelchair.
Not only can it lift occupants by balancing on its hind wheels it can also do impressive things like move up stairs and simply do...
4:35 am on Thursday October 28, 2010
Paraplegic man dies after falling from James Island dock
Image by Flickr user Grant MacDonaldLocal authorities are investigating the death of a paraplegic man who apparently fell out of his electric wheelchair and into the Charleston Harbor yesterday afternoon.
The incident occurred on a deck behind a...
2:06 am on Sunday January 4, 2009
Left in the cold, disabled man has new home
Evicted from his home, R.W. Langford spent many of hist nights between Christmas and New Year's out in the cold in front of a downtown Charleston shelter.
But he's now at an Christian-oriented Allendale home, renting a room for $55 a week.
The whole...
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