Talking Hands
<font color=purple><b>|,,|/</b> DEAF DISNEY LOVER<
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2002
1. Don't touch the wheelchair without permission of the user. the wheelchair is really an extension of myself.
2. Don't cut in front of the wheelchair. This is for your safety as well as mine. I can't stop on a dime. While a manual wheelchair has brakes, a power wheelchair does not.
3. Be conscious of where the power wheelchair's controller is. They are not all on the right ( mine is left). If you hit my hand or arm on that side you can cause me to lose control of the wheelchair momentarily. This is especially important for character handlers. For the characters safety it is better if I can turn off the power before the character comes to hug me. He can't see where the controller is and my wheelchair could wipe out his toes. On the same note don't walk to close to the wheelchair. If your foot gets under the wheels it can hurt you and it can flip my wheelchair onto it's side and seriously injure me.
4. Please speak to me not my compainion or even ignore me altogether when I am unaccompanied. I am an intelligent person. Just my legs and ears don't work right.
5. Please don't say you wish you could be riding in my wheelchair. Trust me, I would rather be walking like you. Being in a wheelchair is not fun but it is better than being in pain or not visiting Disney.
Any more from others.
2. Don't cut in front of the wheelchair. This is for your safety as well as mine. I can't stop on a dime. While a manual wheelchair has brakes, a power wheelchair does not.
3. Be conscious of where the power wheelchair's controller is. They are not all on the right ( mine is left). If you hit my hand or arm on that side you can cause me to lose control of the wheelchair momentarily. This is especially important for character handlers. For the characters safety it is better if I can turn off the power before the character comes to hug me. He can't see where the controller is and my wheelchair could wipe out his toes. On the same note don't walk to close to the wheelchair. If your foot gets under the wheels it can hurt you and it can flip my wheelchair onto it's side and seriously injure me.
4. Please speak to me not my compainion or even ignore me altogether when I am unaccompanied. I am an intelligent person. Just my legs and ears don't work right.
5. Please don't say you wish you could be riding in my wheelchair. Trust me, I would rather be walking like you. Being in a wheelchair is not fun but it is better than being in pain or not visiting Disney.
Any more from others.