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9-15-04
PLAN
to aid disabled hits bump
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
access to homes. The improvements could include wide doors, wheelchair ramps
and low doorknobs and light switches. The plans were ...
9-18-04
MAKING
room for Mom and Dad
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Now contractors may be able to fit an older house with many universal modifications:
grab bars, of course, and shower seats, but also multilevel kitchen ...
ARCHITECT
Graves faces ultimate design challenge
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
It meant complying with the Americans With Disabilities Act. It was about
door thresholds, wheelchair passage width, grab bars. ...
9-19-04
FEST
SHOWS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES POSSIBILITIES FOR FUN
Tyler Morning Telegraph - Tyler,TX,USA
need, provides ramps and other medical equipment. The group also tries to
get recently injured people information on how to find a wheelchair and modify
...
9-20-04
REFERRAL
service, specialists can help find elder housing
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
and fixtures, rebuilding broken steps and unsafe porches, installing locks
and deadbolts, and building wheelchair ramps and installing grab bars and
handrails.
UNIVERSAL
Design : Homes Visitable to All
Dexigner - USA
Gold spent about $45,000 -- the same cost as an Elder Suite modular cottage
today -- to build a wheelchair accessible bathroom, closet, two ramps and
a ...
9-22-04
CEO
climbs corporate ladder in a wheelchair
Kentucky Post - Covington,KY,USA
CEO Chris Goddard reaches behind the driver's seat and swings a lightweight
folding wheelchair onto the ... The school would build ramps to fit his class
schedule. ...
9-30-04
Editorial:
Going the extra mile
Dover Times - Dover,AR,USA
so that the wheelchair was more accessible and also by just being open to
change. Through the purchase of equipment and the building of some ramps,
she is now ...
10-1-04
Granite
City Housing Authority, architect sued for accessibility .
St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis,MO,USA
route into and through the units; accessible thermostats and other controls;
reinforced bathroom walls to allow the installation of grab bars; and kitchens
and ...
10-2-04
Builders'
lab checks construction materials under stress
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Grab bars, which are attached to bathroom and shower stalls, often are used
to assist people who use wheelchairs or want a bit of support. ...
Stadium
renovations make games accessible
Galveston County Daily News - Galveston,TX,USA
The steep slopes are gone, the sales counters at the ticket booths are lowered,
the restrooms have grab bars and soap dispensers have been placed within easy
...
Teen
Sues City Over Inadequate Curb Ramps
NBC5.com - Chicago,IL,USA
SUMMIT, Ill. A suburban teenager who uses a wheelchair says sidewalks near
his ... "When they did try to cure the problem, they put curb ramps in
that are so ...
10-4-04
Make
your home safer
CNN - USA
This Old House - You no doubt have smoke detectors in your home, and you may
have a wide assortment of non-skid mats, baby gates, grab bars, and handrails
to ...
10-6-04
NISD
calls Dec. 11 election
The Navasota Examiner - Navasota,TX,USA
Such a move would require the current stadium be reworked to include wheelchair
ramps, handicapped-accessible seating, etc.
10-11-04
Trevor
and Bruno
Clay Center Dispatch - Clay Center,KS,USA
has had spina bifida since he was born, has been in a wheelchair for as ...
The video included ramps and other structures in the house, and daily routine
activities ...
10-14-04
When
Celebrities Suffer
Tech Central Station - Richfield,OH,USA
greeted enthusiastically. Stem cells?, asked quadriplegics Erik Leipoldt and
Maurice Corcoran. What about wheelchair ramps? What makes ...
10-15-04
Baby
boomers: Act now, save bones
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
contains a broad array of tips that include getting enough calcium and exercise,
taking yoga to improve balance and prevent falls, and placing grab bars in
the ...
10-24-04
Levee
board removing barriers for the handicapped
Clarksdale Press Register - Clarksdale,MS,USA
The ramps will comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). "We
do have one board member who is in a wheelchair," Greenwood said, "but
that's not the ...
10-25-04
Cities
struggle to meet requirements for blind
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - AR,USA
a pedestrian crosses the path of moving vehicles, such as a wheelchair ramp
or curb ... All sidewalk ramps built or replaced after that date must have
a detectable ...
10-28-04
Polling
Places Accessible For The Disabled
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
That equipment includes portable wheelchair ramps, special parking signs,
special traffic cones and doorbells that alert election judges a disabled
person may ...
10-29-04
Getting
connected
Hollywood Reporter - Los Angeles,CA,USA
We want to visit these people and make sure they have grip bars in their bathrooms,
wheelchair ramps, things like that -- but we also want to address their ...
