Ukulele Hero

Designers: Eric Martin, Amy Peniston, Joshua Chao

Client Coordinators: Stephanie Parken, OTR

Supervising Professors: Kevin Caves and Richard Goldberg

INTRODUCTION

Our client Mia is a 6-year old girl with pituitary dwarfism who expressed interest in learning to play a stringed instrument. Her fingers are all on the order of 1 inch in length and she […]

The Quicker Picker Upper

Designers: Jon Usher, Ankit Jain, Chris Radford

Client Coordinators: Laura Juel, OTR

Supervising Professors: Kevin Caves and Richard Goldberg

INTRODUCTION

Tina is an adult female with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), which is a hereditary, degenerative muscle disease. Tina has balance problems caused by leg weakness and she sometimes falls while alone at home, which is […]

The Cutting Edge

Designers: Vivek Patel, Eric Yuan, Tom Backeris, and Jeffery Wang

Client Coordinators: Tracey Craven, OE Enterprises

Supervising Professors: Kevin Caves and Richard Goldberg

INTRODUCTION

OE Enterprises is a local community rehabilitation program that employs people with disabilities for contract work. One of the contract jobs at this location involves cutting 24” lengths of metal bands […]

Reading Rainbow

Designers: Shalki Kumar and Eason Lee

Client Coordinators: Laura Walton, teacher and Edie Kahn, OTR

Supervising Professors: Kevin Caves and Richard Goldberg

 

Figure 1: The Reading Rainbow device. A pair of dark shades mask out the top and bottom portions of the page, and these shades can slide up and down to […]

Pack ‘n Roll

Designers: Akshay Buddiga, Aman Mittal, and Ankit Rajgariah

Client Coordinators: Victoria Guthrie, PT, and Catherine Alguire, OTR

Supervising Professors: Kevin Caves and Richard Goldberg

INTRODUCTION

Emma is a bubbly six year-old girl with spina bifida, a congenital deformation in which the vertebral arch of the spine forms improperly. This leads to a loss of sensation […]

Kayak Transporter

Designers: Charles Chen, Billy Chyan, Zach Tay, Jarey Wang

Supervising Professor: Larry Bohs

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INTRODUCTION

Figure 1. Kayak Transporter

Our client is a competitive kayaker with spina bifida. She desires to independently transport her kayak from the car to the dock so that she can train for the Paralympics. The Kayak Transporter […]