'Wheelchair Palooza' in Utah offers community, friendship, opportunities for adaptive programs
The event brings together wheelchair users and their families from across the state to connect and learn about sports and opportunities.
Johnston was at the park with his 6-year-old son Jackson, who has Spina bifida and needs to use a wheelchair or sticks to get around.“These events have a lot more people and so it normalizes his experience. He sees a lot of kids that look like him and act like him," Johnston said. “One of the great things is in Utah, there's a lot of adaptive programs,” explained Amanda King, the president of Utah Adaptive Alliance. “The thing is that they've just been spread out and disconnected in the past. And so kind of really, since COVID we've been working on trying to get it to be a little more cohesive of a thing.”
“To see, say, Aaron Wheelz here doing his skills and amazing stuff that all these kids aspire to is just really inspirational for them and helps them feel like kids again,” said Johnston.
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