disabilities
An All-Abilities Park Opens In Wisconsin
“Everybody has the right to play.”
It says that in large letters right on the wall at the entrance to Trane All-Abilities Park. It’s a declaration that the people of La Crosse, Wisconsin made real this summer when the 2-acre park, 10 years in the making, was dedicated.
Across seven play zones, the park is filled with all sorts of features and play equipment, including 7 different types of slides and music-makers from Goric Playgrounds….
Access is Not Inclusion: The Battlecry of the Play Brigade
A little more than four years ago, when Dawn Oates took her youngest daughter, Harper, to a neighborhood playground in Boston to play with her older twin siblings, she found herself deeply dispirited. For Harper, an eager two-year old born with a debilitating spinal cord injury at birth, there was…
