When elevators were for pianos: an oral history account of the civilian experience of using wheelchairs in Canadian society. The first twenty‐five years: 1945–1970

Demographics of wheelchair users in France: Results of national community-based handicaps-incapacités-dépendance surveys

“…Nicolas Vignier, MD 1,2,3,4 , Jean-François Ravaud, MD, PhD 1,2,3,4 , Myriam Winance, PhD 1,2,3,4 , François-Xavier Lepoutre, PhD 5 and Isabelle Ville, PhD 1,2,3,4 From the 1 Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), Cermes, U750, IFR25, Ville Juif, 2 Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), UMR8169, 3 École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), 4 Université de Paris Sud, IFR69 and 5…”

“…Its lighter weight and folding mechanism made it easier to transport, enabling veterans to be mobile, to return home and to have improved social lives. Other Canadians with spinal cord injuries soon followed the veterans' example (4) and the number of wheelchair users in Canada has continued to rise ever since. In 1986, there were 179,300 wheelchair users, i.e.…”

Reconsidering Knowledge and Power: Reflections on Disability Communities and Disability Studies in Canada

“…This can involve a shared production of knowledge on disability between the editor/researcher and the narrator/storyteller (Church 1995;Crooks 2007;Krause 2005;Moss and Dyck 2002;Raoul et al 2007;Tremblay et al 2005). Such narratives connect the private and public domains of a person's life, and cast light on coping and the healing, as well as controlling, provided by community services and by peers and families.…”