Question

Imagine yourself in a wheelchair and take a walk around your neighborhood. (If you can, ask a friend to push you in a wheelchair.)

1. What did you notice?

2. Would you have any difficulties getting everywhere you want to go?

3. What changes would you like to make in your community to benefit someone who uses a wheelchair? Why?

4. Did you observe anything that would be a regulatory or legal concern? (Keep the Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations in mind.)

Answer 1

Imagine yourself in a wheelchair and take a walk around your neighborhood. (If you can, ask a friend to push you in a wheelchair.)

1. What did you notice?

Answer:

-Small corridors usually don't fit the size of the wheelchair.

-Parking lots are challenging to get around.

-Limitation to visit every place because of unevenness on the road. Speedbrakers are also challenging.

-Dependency on your wheelchair pusher.

-The heaviness of a wheelchair that can't allow the person to hold your wheelchair to move in the rough surface.

-Inability to move fast as wheelchairs run with limited speeds(manual).

-People come and go in between your path causing discomfort.

-No separate roads for disabled persons.

2. Would you have any difficulties getting everywhere you want to go?

Answer:

• You become dependable on your friends or family members for going anywhere. This makes a person dependable that is the most devastating feeling for that person(unless you hire someone).
• In the case of a hand-driven wheelchair, wheels get easily tip off the route on uneven surfaces.
• After continuous use in a manually driven wheelchair, the hands of the person get dry, irritated with blisters. So it puts limitations to visit faraway places.
• Risk of getting struck on steep slopes.
• Irritating horns of restless drivers.
• Getting Stuck into Narrow Doors that make visits to any place more irritating.
• The Race for Getting into the Lift.

So many limitations put forth in front of a disabled person for visiting any place.

3. What changes would you like to make in your community to benefit someone who uses a wheelchair? Why?

Answer:

The disabled person many challenges in their day to day life activities. To help them, some of the following measures should be made in society.

• Corridors must be large enough to easily move in out wheelchair.
• Allow the ground floor rooms for the disabled person to avoid discomfort to them.
• Physical access includes things like accessible routes, curb ramps, parking and passenger loading zones, elevators, signage, entrances, and restroom accommodations.
• Awareness regarding the minority population of a disabled person, their social and physical values.

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