Wheelchair
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148 examples of Wheelchair in a sentence
You're in a
wheelchair.
I was in my
wheelchair.
Sitting at home in my
wheelchair
and my plaster body cast, an airplane flew overhead.
It's wonderful to be here to talk about my journey, to talk about the
wheelchair
and the freedom it has bought me.
I started using a
wheelchair
16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world.
When I started using the wheelchair, it was a tremendous new freedom.
They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a
wheelchair.
When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like "limitation," "fear," "pity" and "restriction."
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.
The
wheelchair
became an object to paint and play with.
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 I'm thinking, it's because in that moment of them seeing an object they have no frame of reference for, or so transcends the frames of reference they have with the wheelchair, they have to think in a completely new way.
For me, the
wheelchair
becomes a vehicle for transformation.
In fact, I now call the underwater
wheelchair "
Portal," because it's literally pushed me through into a new way of being, into new dimensions and into a new level of consciousness.
And the other thing is, that because nobody's seen or heard of an underwater
wheelchair
before, and creating this spectacle is about creating new ways of seeing, being and knowing, now you have this concept in your mind.
I was a hemiplegic, and back home in New York, I used a
wheelchair
for four years, all through college.
Or take the critically important
wheelchair.
A
wheelchair
necessitates a landscape of minimal slopes and redundant vertical circulation.
Imagine if we could design the hovercraft
wheelchair.
If a
wheelchair
user can't play Beyoncé, then Beyoncé can't play a
wheelchair
user.
So basically I'm in a
wheelchair
most of the time.
SC: John's just told us he's in a
wheelchair
most of the time.
As a testimony to current technology, he is out of the wheelchair, but we need to do a better job in bionics, to allow, one day, full rehabilitation for a person with this level of injury.
And in fact, I am sitting on this stage looking like I do in this wheelchair, and you are probably kind of expecting me to inspire you.
I want to live in a world where we value genuine achievement for disabled people, and I want to live in a world where a kid in year 11 in a Melbourne high school is not one bit surprised that his new teacher is a
wheelchair
user.
She has been in a
wheelchair
for six years after a terrible car accident.
And clearly, we're not finished, because when we left that pilot study and went back to Dublin, I rolled home in my
wheelchair
and I'm still paralyzed and I'm still blind and we're primarily focusing on the paralysis at the moment, but being at this conference, we're kind of interested if anyone does have a cure for blindness, we'll take that as well.
I accept that I, and other
wheelchair
users, can and do live fulfilling lives, despite the nerve pain and the spasms and the infections and the shortened life spans.
He's confined to a motorized
wheelchair.
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