Resources
The following resources are the ones with which I am familiar.
Other resource sites certainly exist and I encourage you to explore
them. If you are personally familiar with a resource(s) and website(s),
please submit to me and I will incorporate it into this page.
Thank You,
Molly Hale
Provides objective information about assistive technology products and rehabilitation equipment.
Improving access for people of all abilities.
Bringing people with disabilities and the elderly complete access to new and pre-owned adaptive equipment, services, resources, and events.
The iBOT® Mobility System’s all-in-one combination of functions is unlike any wheelchair ever created.
Disability awareness resources from Gary Karp.
Resource for education, information and sexual enhancement products for people who have various disabilities or health-related conditions that might otherwise limit their sexual functioning or satisfaction.
Magazine for active wheelchair users.
Works to improve interaction with computers and information and control of their environment for people with disabilities, the elderly, people with limited literacy, and people who use computers and information appliances.
The originator of Sacral-Lower Thoracic Support in office, laboratory, and motor vehicle seating with two unique products guaranteed to relieve your pain and improve your posture.
A superior class of manual wheelchairs, combining orthoses-like customization with the most advanced materials.
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Trusted health advisor; great information.
Empowering approach to women’s health and wellness
For the past thirty years, Christine Sutherland has been teaching hands-on healing. Her first career as an audio visual specialist merged with her second career as a massage therapist. She produces visually and verbally accessible videos teaching massage techniques for birthing, palliative care, wheelchair users, pets and more. She also teaches massage in workshop formats.
Good group with online community.
The world's largest comprehensive spinal cord injury (SCI) research center.
This site is a free and informative resource for those living with a spinal cord injury or other disabling injuries or diseases of the spine. It is meant to be a "best of the web" site for SCI health and caregiver information.
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Provides support and enhances communication among those who apply the principles of Aikido and practice in venues outside of conventional dojo settings.
Jeramy's Menlo Park, CA. Dojo. Classes are offered by the City of Menlo Park.
Online Aikido information, world-wide.
My home dojo with instructor Frank Doran, 7th dan.
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Non-profit organization provides therapeutic horseback riding for clients with special needs. This is where I ride now.
Promotes the use of the movement of the horse as a treatment strategy in physical, occupational and speech therapy sessions for people living with disabilities.
Home of one of the largest hippotherapy programs in the United States and where I first began riding after injury.
Promotes the benefit of the horse for individuals with and without physical, emotional and learning disabilities
The Parelli method allows horse lovers at all levels and disciplines to achieve: success without force, partnership without dominance, teamwork without fear, willingness without intimidation, and harmony without coercion.
A fully wheelchair accessible gym for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), spinal cord injury or other limitations.
Balance aligns your bones with gravity so that your muscles can be in maximum relaxation. Consulted for proper wheelchair posture and walking alignment when in water.
Increases vitality, health and healing. Provides a spacious sense of well-being. Develops core strength and flexible power. Revitalizes bones, joints, and skeletal health. Releases, relaxes and realigns.
A way of working with the awareness of one's body to improve movement and enhance human functioning.
The one-stop aquatic therapy resource. An international clearinghouse of information on aquatic, aquatics, aquatic therapy, aquatic fitness.where you can search for a warm water pool in your area.
A non-profit educational organization dedicated to the professional development of healthcare professionals involved with aquatic therapy. Wonderful classes and people.
Provides high quality aquatic therapy and leisure opportunities that promote health and wellness, injury prevention, and active daily living. This is where I go 5 days a week.
Watsu is proving its effectiveness with chronic pain and a widening range of conditions. In addition to the physical benefits derived from the movements and stretches warm water facilitates, Watsu reduces stress.
Lists practitioners and classes in Watsu and the other major forms of Aquatic Bodywork.
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Providing talent for non-profits to run successful events. This group facilitates fun and accessible comfort and skill in the sky, in and on the ocean and on the court. Check their site.
Opens the beauty and challenge of outdoor adventures to people with special needs.
A Full Service Travel Agency Specializing in Travel for Persons With Disabilities
A wonderful wheelchair accessible beachfront condo at Maalaea in Maui, Hawaii where my husband and I stayed.
A New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of accessibility in the travel & tourism industries. It raises awareness of the needs of all travelers with disabilities, remove physical and attitudinal barriers to free access and expand travel opportunities in the United States and abroad.
A non-profit volunteer organization formed in 1983 to provide and promote quality non-motorized trail opportunities for all people in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco counties.
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Information and technical assistance.
This is Dorothy Fadiman's film company. Dorothy and her husband Jim became our dear friends through the making of Moment By Moment. Dorothy is the filmmaker for Moment By Moment, as well as other equally engaging films.
Educates to improve fairness, accuracy and diversity in news reporting about disability issues and people with disabilities.
Sisse and her husband Cotton Coulson are another couple who became our friends through the making of Moment By Moment. Sisse is the photographer who is responsible for the wonderful still photos on this site, as well as many of the photos you see in Moment By Moment. Click her name to read more about her amazing work as a National Geographic photographer and with her photographer husband, Cotton.
Graphic designer with dynamic images and powerful words, galvanized with strategic thinking and relationship nurturing. Created DVD packaging for Moment by Moment.
Graphic design and Creative services. Steve created this wonderful website and DVD projects for Ability Production.
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