Tag: adaptive technology

  • Adaptive ski project gives people with disabilities a new chance to participate

    Ran on 3/8/2013 on the UW-Madison College of Engineering news site Back in 2005, “sit-skis” for disabled cross-country skiers were expensive, uncomfortable and largely unavailable—except to a handful of Paralympic athletes. Today, more than 300 sitting-position skis enable a much wider group of people with lower-body limitations to participate in the popular winter sport. In…