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Article: The master adapter. (Hal O'Leary of the National Sports Center for the Disabled) (includes information on disabled skier programs)
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- Skiing
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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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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