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Adaptive Paddle

Shared by Salomé Azevedo on 2014-11-27 11:46

About the solution

He has used his engineering skills to develop some adaptive solutions for people with disabilities.
The inventor designed a solution to help the disabled navigate in an outrigger with adapted paddles.
In this specific case, Pauric designed the adapted paddle for a kid named Josh who, because of his cerebral palsy, has very little control over his right hand and wrist movements.
This solution, and its plans and instructions, have been shared in the instructables website by user radiodental, and are available to anyone who might be interested.

Adapted from: http://bit.ly/2kmHNeQ

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About the author

Pauric O'Callaghan, from USA, is an engineer who volunteers at an association called Access Sports, where activities that the most agile of athletes would find challenging are brought to children and adults with disabilities.

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