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Show 5 The Association maintains that disabled individuals have the right to be gainfully employed. But such ^rights are withheld when handicappeds are prevented from entering or operating within public buildings. To illustrate, because of a traffic accident in Provo, Dan was summoned to court on a cold, snowy day. There was no possible way he could get into the new City Building. In his wheelchair, he sat, chilled in the driving snow, and had to stop a passerby to go inside and inform the judge that he was waiting on the sidewalk to answer the summons. The judge came out and, before gawking passersby, he heard the case and fined him. Dan was so cold he feared his check would bounce because of faulty signature. Dan would like to equip all the architects, at their next convention, with wheelchairs. This would be an awareness day to cause an architectural revolution. After architectural barriers have been crumbled, housing will be the next objective. Dan and Nancy discussed their housing problems with Dr. Lowell Bennion. Through their persuasion, the State Housing Authorities purchased the home the Herberts were renting and made it a pilot house. So the Herberts now rent from State Housing. According to their own specifications, the home was remodeled. Doorways were widened and some were made into arches. Over a shallow ramp they wheel in the front door. A bedroom wall was knocked out into the bathroom for wheelchair room. A steel lift beside the bathtub permits Nancy to get in and out of the tub alone. She's paralyzed from the lungs down from post-measle encephalitis. Later her legs had to be amputated to the hips. |