Cait on Disability and Life

Guide Pony: Too Cute or What?
Guide Horses provide safe, cost-effective and reliable mobility alternative for visually impaired people. (We are not making this up!) Go to the Guide Horse web page to see custom-made sneakers for these little guys, videos of these tiny critters at work and even a wheelchair for Harry - a beloved wee gimpy horse.
Link to Guide Horse

Embarrass Parking Offenders
Print these “parking tickets” from the United Spinal Association and keep some in your car for the next time you see someone illegally use a parking spot meant for Gimpy drivers. Slip one under the offender’s windshield wiper and you’ve made your point!
Link to Parking Ticket

Disabled — or Too-Abled?
Oscar Pistorius of South Africa calls himself the fastest man on no legs. Pistorius wants to run in the 2008 Olympics. But track and field’s world governing body believes his prosthetics may give him an unfair advantage over sprinters who have legs.
Read his story

Triple amputee becomes pediatrician
Kellie Lim was 8-years-old when she lost her legs and arm to a ravaging bacterial infection. From then on, she endured a life of of prosthetics, wheelchairs and often-painful rehabilitation. Now 26, Lim has graduated with top honors from UCLA’s medical school and is dedicating her life to treating seriously ill children.
Read her story