{"id":16476,"date":"2017-10-25T10:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T15:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=16476"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T15:57:42","slug":"the-halloween-wheelchair-costume-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2017\/10\/25\/the-halloween-wheelchair-costume-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Halloween Wheelchair Costume Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Oct. 14, Sinclair College and the Muscular Dystrophy Association sponsored and hosted a wheelchair costume clinic for Dayton area adults and children who use a wheelchair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those at the event got to have their wheelchairs customized for Halloween and explore the new Sifferlen Health Sciences Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event was put together by Sinclair\u2019s Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) program in honor of National Physical Therapy (PT) Month and National PT Day of Service.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heather Stoner, Assistant Professor in the PTA department, was in charge of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can help make this really cool, kid-focused holiday more about them as a person, and not about their disability, and let them be the superstars for the night, we\u2019ve accomplished our goal,\u201d Stoner said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students and faculty from both Sinclair\u2019s PTA program and University of Dayton\u2019s Department of Physical Therapy (DPT) came to the open house of the new Sifferlen Health Sciences Center the previous Saturday to start building the costumes, and finished them up at the costume clinic. <\/span><\/p>\n

A total of 18 costumes were completed, with a total of 11 different designs. There were four costumes modeled after Cinderella\u2019s carriage, four designs from the \u201cMario Kart\u201d video game series, two flying carpets from the cartoon \u201cShimmer and Shine,\u201d the DeLorean from the \u201cBack to the Future\u201d movies, Lightning McQueen from the movie \u201cCars,\u201d the \u201cGekko Mobile\u201d from the cartoon \u201cPJ Masks,\u201d a Captain America themed costume, \u00a0Ariel from \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d \u00a0a race car, a bulldozer and a backhoe. <\/span><\/p>\n

As each of the participants showed up, the costumes were fitted for the different wheelchairs, and the students had to use critical thinking skills to help solve the problem of how each one was going to be attached.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was not the first year this has been done at Sinclair, and Heather ensures that it will continue to be an annual event for the foreseeable future. <\/span><\/p>\n

Multiple businesses helped with the event by donating supplies and helping to find the members of the community who participated. These businesses included Dayton Public Schools, Dayton Children\u2019s Hospital, Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital, ABC Pediatrics, the Spina Bifida Association, the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Montgomery County Disability Services.<\/span>
\n<\/span> The PTA program is also accepting donations of paint, glue and zip-ties to help towards next year\u2019s event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daniel Riley<\/strong>
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On Saturday, Oct. 14, Sinclair College and the Muscular Dystrophy Association sponsored and hosted a wheelchair costume clinic for Dayton area adults and children who use a wheelchair. Those at the event got to have their wheelchairs customized for Halloween and explore the new Sifferlen Health Sciences Center. The event was put together by Sinclair\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2102,3],"tags":[2216,1418,2098,725,2171,2235,2234],"class_list":["post-16476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life","category-tartan-news","tag-building-14","tag-campus-life","tag-daniel-riley","tag-halloween","tag-health-sciences","tag-muscular-dystrophy-association","tag-wheelchair-costume-clinic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-4hK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16477,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions\/16477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}