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PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: UH EXPERIENCES WHEELCHAIR
CHALLENGES A group of University of Houston faculty, staff and students will learn what it’s like to navigate in a wheelchair. Participants will tour the campus and play in a basketball tournament as part of DisAbility Awareness Week (DAW) Thursday, Oct. 28. The events are sponsored by UH’s Justin Dart, Jr. Center for Students with DisABILITIES (CSD). Three simultaneous campus accessibility tours, led by students with visual or mobile impairments, will take place from 10 a.m. to noon, starting at the CSD and ending at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center. The group, consisting of administration members, faculty, staff and students, will take the tour using wheelchairs to gain a better understanding of traveling the campus without the ability to walk. Additionally, a wheelchair challenge basketball tournament will take place at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center from 6 to 9 p.m. The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) Sports Hotwheels, a team of players ages 18 and under, the Houston Rolling Cougars, a team with experience in a league of wheelchair users, and various sorority and fraternity teams will compete for $500 worth of gift certificates to Best Buy. American Medical, Texas Medical and Mobility, and TIRR are providing the wheelchairs to those not usually requiring a wheelchair. “Though the UH campus is relatively wheelchair accessible, there are always improvements to be made,” said Cheryl Amoruso, director of Justin Dart, Jr. Center for Students with DisABILITIES. “Through the week’s events, bigger problems can be addressed.” For more information about the events, contact the Center for Students with DisABILITIES at (713) 743-5400 or visit http://www.uh.edu/csd/.
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