Chariots of Freedom: Wheeled Mobility at Regency Park Centre for Young Disabled, South Australia

This paper concerns wheeled mobility aids, or ‘Chariots of Freedom’. Wheelchairs are the most commonly used wheeled mobility aids. The rationale for mobility management at Regency Park Centre for Young Disabled is based on the research findings of others, research at the Centre into seating for children with cerebral palsy and children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and our development of a Skill Evaluator and Trainer, and a crashworthy restraint for wheelchair occupants in motor vehicles. In summary, wheeled mobility aids, and wheelchairs in particular, while entailing responsibilities, present a form of liberation from dependence for disabled children