{"id":136,"date":"2011-12-07T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-07-16T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:26:51","slug":"an-abilities-expo-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/an-abilities-expo-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"An Abilities Expo Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">by Shannon Coe, CFILC\u2019s Reuse &amp; Finance Coordinator<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">During the weekend of November 19th and 20th, I got the chance to attend the Abilities Expo in San Jose. <\/p>\n<p>There were new faces and animals at the event.  I saw horses giving rides to people with autism as a form of therapy.  There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.up-away.com\/\">hot air balloon with accessible views<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seegrins.com\/\">motor home<\/a> with lifts to bring a person with a physical disability inside the motor home so they can go on adventures.  The Expo also had a film festival that showed documentaries submitted by people with disabilities.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>The AT device I liked the most at the Expo was a manual wheelchair that could become a motorized wheelchair when you attach an electronic device that looks like the front of a standard bicycle to it.  The device looks like a motorized bicycle.  It is currently not in the market but I saw a participant riding around in it. The inventor went to the Expo to show off the device in hopes of getting a venture capitalist to invest in the wheelchair.  Overall, I was impressed with the creative inventions and art that permeated the event.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been to an Abilities Expo?  If so, what was your experience like?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Shannon Coe, CFILC\u2019s Reuse &amp; Finance Coordinator During the weekend of November 19th and 20th, I got the chance to attend the Abilities Expo in San Jose. There were new faces and animals at the event. I saw horses giving rides to people with autism as a form of therapy. There was a hot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5,16],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreation","tag-independence","tag-mobility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}