Article: The master adapter. (Hal O'Leary of the National Sports Center for the Disabled) (includes information on disabled skier programs)

Nine A.M., and already there's chaos in the Adaptive Equipment Room. Prosthetic legs are on the floor and wheelchairs are in the aisles and various pieces of odd-looking ski equipment are strewn everywhere. In one corner is a group of soldiers who were wounded in the Persian Gulf War; in another is a boisterous gang from Belfast, Ireland, that includes a police officer who lost both legs in an IRA bombing. There are people with Down's syndrome and cerebral palsy; there are paraplegics, quadriplegics, and amputees; there are blind people, deaf people, and developmentally disabled people. And scurrying about, desperately trying to create order from disorder, is Hal O'Leary, ...

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