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with Disabilities
Wheelchairs generally have adjustable
Books/Audio armrests, to accomodate variation in
Medical heights. Malka's chair has had four
Information
Web Resources holes, two on each side, drilled into the
Adaptive/Adaptable tubes in the frame in which the
Parenting Products armrests slide. A spring loaded pin has
Organizations been added to each armrest. The
Toys and armrests can be positioned either up or
Recreation
Magazines and down, with the the pin engaging the
Periodicals corresponding hole.
The picture shows the right armrest in
Our Stories
Read articles written by parents the up position and the left arm rest in
with disabilities, on various the down position. The bottom hole on
aspects of parenting.
the right is circled in red. The top hole,
About This Site with the pin engaged, is circled in
Other Disability Links green.
Feedback The carrier itself also has spring loaded pins that engage holes on the front of the
Send an E-mail armrests. The hole in the front of the right armrest is circled in blue.
Photo 2
This is a side view. Again, the bottom hole in the
armrest support tube is circled in red, the top
hole, with the pin engaged is circled in green,
while the front hole where the carrier's own pin
engages is circled in blue.
Photo 3
The carrier is made from a
standard Gerry brand backpack
child carrier. It has been cut up
and the straps removed and re-
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2. attached in various places. The
backpack's original aluminum
tube was replaced with a
sturdier steel tube that is itself
wrapped with foam padding
and covered in vinyl.
The pin to engage the hole in
the front of the armrest is circled
in blue.
The tube supports the front of the carrier. The back of the carrier is supported by
straps around the armrests. The yellow arrows point to the buckles for the right side
straps. The left side straps are also visible. The additional strap visible is one of two
that can be used to strap the baby into the carrier. We almost never do this.
Photo 4
Both armrests are in the up position
and the carrier has been inserted. The
carrier pin engaged in the hole on the
front of the armrest is visible. The
yellow arrow points to where a carrier
strap goes behind the upright of the
armrest.
Photo 5
In operation. As you can see, we don't generally strap the baby in. The original carrier
has a sling seat for smaller babies, which can be removed as the child grows. This
remains in the modified carrier.
And yes, the baby is sold separately. ;-)
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