I started using a wheelchair 16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world.

I started using a wheelchair 16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world.

He's otherwise completely wheelchair bound.

You're in a wheelchair. That's normal.

Every child should have access to the necessary medical care and treatment, to education, to help with independent living, to a wheelchair if needed.

(a) Belgian international wheelchair training for children

Sue Austin Deep sea diving in a wheelchair

For me, the wheelchair becomes a vehicle for transformation.

For me, the wheelchair becomes a vehicle for transformation.

The wheelchair became an object to paint and play with.

The wheelchair became an object to paint and play with.

They took him away mumbling to himself in a wheelchair.

It was a man in a wheelchair desperately trying to move away.

No need of staying with me all the day pushing my wheelchair.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk.

When I started using the wheelchair, it was a tremendous new freedom.

When I started using the wheelchair, it was a tremendous new freedom.

The last thing The Man in the wheelchair said, Now, get out.

Recently we have just started a program, a sport program basketball for wheelchair users.

And this man does not look like a 65 year old wheelchair bound man.

And I will never forget Mahmoud and his son walking together pushing the empty wheelchair.

When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like limitation, fear,

The International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation International Sports Organization for the Disabled, merger of the International Sports Organization for the Disabled, in special consultative status, and the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation, not in status.

And finally, to real life changing applications, such as being able to control an electric wheelchair.

I realized scuba gear extends your range of activity in just the same way as a wheelchair does, but the associations attached to scuba gear are ones of excitement and adventure, completely different to people's responses to the wheelchair.

When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like limitation, fear, pity and restriction.

She was said to remain confined to a wheelchair and unable to walk as a result of the torture.

Richard Post, a paraplegic in a wheelchair, was reportedly detained at Madison Street Jail in Arizona since March 1996.

So when I began to dive, in 2005, I realized scuba gear extends your range of activity in just the same way as a wheelchair does, but the associations attached to scuba gear are ones of excitement and adventure, completely different to people's responses to the wheelchair.

And the underwater wheelchair that has resulted has taken me on the most amazing journey over the last seven years.

And the underwater wheelchair that has resulted has taken me on the most amazing journey over the last seven years.

Father Fogarty said they wanted their way in everything... and after he was confined to a wheelchair, they had it.

I was in my wheelchair. I had no feeling from the waist down, attached to a catheter bottle. I couldn't walk.

They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair.

IFHSB organized international activities (wheelchair training, sports) during 1992 1995 for young people and children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, including

They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair.

You know, the insurance company would be much happier if you'd sleep in bed at night instead of in that wheelchair.

It's wonderful to be here to talk about my journey, to talk about the wheelchair and the freedom it has bought me.

In the end, because of the disease, he became unable to walk and had to use a motorized wheelchair to get around.

It's wonderful to be here to talk about my journey, to talk about the wheelchair and the freedom it has bought me.

13th Man After seven years now of being in a wheelchair, I've done more in life being in a chair than out of a chair.

I remember Dad pushing me outside in my wheelchair, wrapped in a plaster body cast, and feeling the sun on my face for the first time.

Sitting at home in my wheelchair and my plaster body cast, an airplane flew overhead, and I looked up, and I thought to myself, That's it!

I started making work that aimed to communicate something of the joy and freedom I felt when using a wheelchair a power chair to negotiate the world.

I was working to transform these internalized responses, to transform the preconceptions that had so shaped my identity when I started using a wheelchair, by creating unexpected images.