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Designers: Brian Feldman, Donna Geddes, Larry Maciolek Client Coordinators: Robbin A. Newton, Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs A hockey goalie slider has been designed for the client, an eleven-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, to enable him to better participate in neighborhood street hockey games. The basis of the slider is […] Designers: Nupur K. Modi and J. Brent Ratz Client Coordinators: Dr. Henry A. Greene, Assoc. Prof. of Ophthalmology, UNC Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs Over 200,000 people in N.C. alone are blind or visually impaired. Many of these people can read newspaper-headline-sized print or larger. For these people, grocery shopping is not only inconvenient, […] Designers: Amy L. Caribardi and Lauren E. Schaffer Client Coordinators: Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs The client is a man with quadriplegia who uses a power wheelchair. Most commercially available wheelchair desks attach to the armrests, often interfering with the control joystick on power wheelchairs. The goals of this project were to construct a […] Designers: Clark O’Niell, Graeme Waitzkin Client Coordinators: Eliza Bankert Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs Our client was a six year old girl with athetoid cerebral palsy who used a walker for ambulation. She had outgrown her walker, and no commercial walkers fit her specialized needs. The goal of our project was to provide a […] Designers: Derek Juang and Irene Tseng Client Coordinators: Barbara Howard Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs Our client is a 5 year-old boy with TAR syndrome, which is characterized by the absence of radii bones in the forearms, leading to shortness in arm length. He has limited arm movement and rotation as well as minimal […] Designers: Diana Hsu, Elizabeth Strautin Client Coordinators: Mark Pennington, Claudius Parker, Cassandra Rooke Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs Our client has quadriplegia from a car accident 20 years ago. As a result of his injuries and gradual weakening of his neck muscles, his head leans to the right side of his body. This unnatural […] Designers: Justin Scott Lee and Raphael Alford Client Coordinators: Juli Trautman Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs Our adult client has paralysis in his right arm and leg, and aphasia, which limits his speech and his ability to understand visually complex layouts. He desires to return to his former hobby of photography, which he had […] Designers: David Chong, Billy Watson Client Coordinators: Robbin Newton, OT, Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs Our client is a nine-year-old boy with VATER association who likes to play baseball. He was born with a shortened radius, and his index finger was surgically moved to replace his missing thumb. His right […] Designers: Paul A. Lisi and Andrew D. Steinberg Client Coordinators: Nancy Curtis Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs Our client is a seventeen-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. She cannot get into her motorized wheelchair comfortably without the assistance of others. The goal of this project was to build a device to allow her to ascend […] Designers: Lindsay Boole and Hudson Levy Client Coordinators: Christina Lomax Supervising Professor: Dr. Larry N. Bohs Our client is an active woman with osteoarthritis. The goal of this project was to provide her forearm canes with shock absorption, and to develop brackets to mount the canes to her powered scooter. Shock absorber tips from commercial […] |