Trick or Treat

How Costuming Your Wheelchair Adds to the Halloween Fun

Making costumes that work with a wheelchair takes creativity and commitment, but for those who go all in at Halloween, the experience also offers something unexpected: empowerment. “There’s something joyous about costuming you and your chair together and encouraging even more staring but on your terms,” John Mohler writes. “This is me. This is my chair. Also, my costume’s better than yours.”

Products

MagnaReady Expands Adaptive Men’s Jeans Collection

MagnaReady, the adaptive clothing brand known for replacing traditional buttons and zippers with magnetic closures, has expanded its offerings to include two new styles of men’s jeans featuring accessibility features like a magnetic fly and reinforced pull loops without sacrificing fashion.

Comic

Please Remain Seated: Muscle Legs

Pro Tips

The Risks and Rewards of Moving for Disability Benefits

For many people with mobility disabilities, the decision to move from one state to another isn’t just about climate, family or lifestyle. It can determine access to health care, financial stability and day-to-day independence. Here are two stories of wheelchair users who moved, what they got right and what they wished they’d considered beforehand.

Day in the Life

Derrick Ross, Academic Counselor

Power wheelchair user Derrick Ross works full-time as a college counselor, helping young people from his community realize their academic goals. Learn how Ross manages the long days, a three-hour round-trip commute and working alongside his wife, who the college employs as his assistant.