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  2. Attraction to disability - Wikipedia

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    Devotees' observation-based behavior and preference for display-minded partners seem to support explanations 2 to 4. Devotee pornography tends to display the appearance of disability across a range of activities rather than focus on sexual situations. Recent neuroscientific research suggests that apotemnophilia has a neurological basis. [13 ...

  3. Bath chair - Wikipedia

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    Bath chair Bath chair. A bath chair—or Bath chair—was a rolling chaise or light carriage for one person with a folding hood, which could be open or closed. Used especially by disabled persons, it was mounted on three or four wheels and drawn or pushed by hand. [1]

  4. Wheelchair - Wikipedia

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    The addition of geared, all-mechanical wheels for manual wheelchairs is a new development incorporating a hypocycloidal reduction gear into the wheel design. The 2-gear wheels can be added to a manual wheelchair. The geared wheels provide a user with additional assistance by providing leverage through gearing (like a bicycle, not a motor).

  5. Disability pretender - Wikipedia

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    Pretending includes dressing and acting in ways typical of disabled people, including making use of aids (glasses, hearing aids, braces, canes, inhalers, walking sticks, crutches, wheelchairs, mobility scooters, white canes etc.). Pretending may also take the form of a devotee persuading his or her sexual partner to play the role of a disabled ...

  6. Wheelchair accessible van - Wikipedia

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    Means of external access added (This is most often a ramp, lift, or rotating seat) A rotating seat or (Turney Seat) will lower outside the vehicle allowing the individual to ambulate from the vehicle seat to the wheelchair or vice versa. Turney Seats are not typically found on a lowered floor accessible van as they are utilized by people with ...

  7. Gendron, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    The Gendron Iron Wheel Company was founded in 1872 in Toledo, Ohio by Peter Gendron (born Pierre Gendron, 1844-1910). [1] Gendron originally produced wire wheels for baby carriages. In 1890, it produced bicycles , tricycles , invalid chairs , baby carriages , doll carriages, coaster wagons , toy wheelbarrows , [ 2 ] and children's diecast toy ...

  8. Walker (mobility) - Wikipedia

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    Walking frames have two front wheels, and there are also wheeled walkers available having three or four wheels, also known as rollators. Walkers started appearing in the early 1950s. The first US patent was awarded in 1953 to William Cribbes Robb, of Stretford, UK, for a device called "walking aid", which had been filed with the British patent ...

  9. Assistance for airline passengers with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    Certain types of wheelchairs can be checked in, such as collapsible wheelchairs, scooters and battery-powered wheelchairs that can be operated by the user themselves. If the wheelchair does not meet size requirements for check-in luggage, flight attendants will carry the wheelchair to the cargo hold free of charge. [21]