Resources: Mobility
Resources are routinely updated . . . please check back often.
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- Chairdex.com
This is an informational site about wheelchairs and includes pages on types, accessories, design and engineering, maintenance, history, and additional resources.
- Medicaid Funding of Ramps PDF
Legal advice on funding AT from Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.
- Mouthstick.net
Arthur Heyer is a mechanical engineer and quadriplegic who has been creating devices and selling them through his company--Extensions for Independence--for over 30 years. Equipment is low and high tech with a vocational focus. The site is also a source for used power wheelchairs.
- State Medicaid Agencies Can Fund Adaptive Tricycles PDF
Legal advice on funding AT from Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.
- State Medicaid Agencies Can Fund Standing Wheelchairs PDF
Legal advice on funding AT from Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.
- WheelchairNet
WheelchairNet.org is an online community for people who have a common interest in (or in some cases a passion for) wheelchair technology and its improvement and successful application.
- Wheelchair-Recycler.org
David Heim in Marlborough Massachusetts collects donated chairs or scooters, repairs them as needed, and makes them available to others at a very small cost. Repair service is also available at a fraction of the regular rates.
- Wheelchair Recycling Program
This Wisconsin based program offers low cost, refurbished mobility and medical equipment to those who lack the resources to acquire new equipment. They can sometimes ship out-of-state.
- Wheelchair Vendors (MassHealth Approved)
A list compiled by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission of vendors that are approved DME providers under MassHealth.
- Whirlwind Wheelchair International (WWI)
WWI grew out of the work of paraplegic engineer Ralf Hotchkiss who travels the globe designing wheelchairs that can be built in developing countries from available materials. WWIs primary goal is to develop a worldwide network of wheelchair inventors/designers, users, and manufacturers to address the need for wheelchairs in developing nations. WWI relies on wheelchair riders themselves to play the central role. Whirlwind offers consulting services to private wheelchair manufacturers and individual designers and inventors.
