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September 2 1984

WORKING together
aS a committee to
put together the
pamphiet Aiding the

< Disabled, left to
. right, Maria George,
. Ann Finlay, Sally
“JS Scott and Sandi

Yy

Richmond each con-
tributed their exper-
tise for the final
product. Therapist
Finlay saw the need
for such a pamphlet,
and the three
women, confined to
wheelchairs, con-
tributed bright in-
sights.

FEELING the need for a layman’s wheelchair
guide, occupational and physiotherapist Ann
Finlay brought together a committee of
wheelchair users with special skills, and together
the group of four made a pamphlet available to

the public.

“I've worked on the
North Shore for years and
years,’ Finlay says, ‘‘and |

So Finlay contacted the

Herman Bishop Foundation

and was given a grant to

see a lot of wheelchair users
in the community. | see peo-
design the pamphet, now

ple stumbling about. No.
body tells people how to use

wheelchairs. There has been

called Aiding the Disabled,

three women friends, all
wheelchair users, who each
had special skills they could
contribute to the project.
Artist Maria George, who
did art work for the West
Vancouver Recreation Cen-
tre’s fall brochure and who
teaches art classes, was a
major help in designing and
laying out the pamplet, and
her husband helped with the
dummying and shrinking of
sketches down to size, Finlay

ing, who,recently had her se-
cond baby boy, helped with
the wording and _ correct
English for the pamplet. Sal-
ly Scott, a more recent
wheelchair user who recently
moved into a_ wheelchair
group home, had valid input
into the difficulties first en-
countered by wheelchair
users. And of course, Finlay,
as a therapist working with
wheelchair patients, gave her
insights into helpful hints for

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