Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 28, 1938
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She'll Walk Again: When you're ten and can't walk and run like other children because your legs are crippled from infantile paralysis, you might have cause to be disheartened. But not this smiling youngster. She exercises her legs daily in the walker at University hospital knowing that some day she will be able to take off the braces and walk again. The walker is one of the many facilities at University hospital to help infantile patients regain their health. To fight infantile paralysis on a national scale is the purpose of the foundation to be established with the proceeds of the President's birthday balls to be held tomorrow night in Ann Arbor and throughout the country.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 6, 1950
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Handicapped Children Helped To Pass The Time Away: Kiwanians play a big part in scenes like the one here depicted at University Hospital. Here children who will be helped by the sale of this paper and other Kiwanis Club projects listen to records while instructors look on. The poster held by one child illustrates the circus song to which the children are listening.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 6, 1958
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Has Suction Base: Julie Spangler, a student at Eastern Michigan College in Ypsilanti, and Miss Lyla Spelbring, supervisor of occupational therapy at the Medical Center, examine a mixing bowl that has a suction base enabling homemakers with the use of only one arm to whip up a cake.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 6, 1958
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Now, Let's See: Ordinary household equipment such as this pyrex cookware enables handicapped homemakers who use wheel chairs to see how the food is cooking without standing up. Here Janice Bindeman, an occupational therapist at University Medical Center, shows the cookware to a patient, Mrs. Olive Stone of St. Louis, Mich.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 6, 1958
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Carries Dishes: Eastern Michigan College student Ruth Stringer puts dishes and silverware on a lap board that is attached to Mrs. Stone's wheel chair. Physically handicapped women can carry dishes and other utensils from cupboards to the table on these boards that are made at the hospital.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 24, 1978
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Leaders- "Who did we hear from today?" Ruth Luckhardt, 18, checks her mailbox while Seymour, her golden retriever, waits expectantly, Then Luckhard cradles some of the mail and a newspaper in her arms, saving one letter for Seymour. Then it's on to the house. Luckhardt is working with Seymour in the Leader Dog Puppy Program.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 24, 1978
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Seymour, a golden retriever, may need just a bit more training by keeper Ruth Luckhardt of the Dexter area before his is ready for the Leader Dog for the Blind School in Rochester, Mich. Local Lions Clubs are seeking five more area individuals to raise puppies for the school, which prepares dogs to help the blind. Volunteers will raise the puppies for one year while the animals are housebroken, taught table manners, learn to work in traffic and ride in cars.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 11, 1988
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Ann Arbor Public Library: Improvements Needed