{"id":23012,"date":"2023-01-16T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/16\/disability-machine-lets-wheelchair-users-experience-walking\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:31:25","slug":"disability-machine-lets-wheelchair-users-experience-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=23012","title":{"rendered":"Disability: Machine lets wheelchair users experience walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Equipment bought by a school is allowing disabled pupils to experience the sensation of walking for the first time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Fourteen-year-old wheelchair user Seren, a pupil of Ysgol y Deri in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, said of using the machine: &#8220;It&#8217;s actually kind of nice, it&#8217;s kind of fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Aaron Hawxwell, who works for the school, said it made staff emotional seeing the reaction of pupils using the machine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;When you see their faces, you can&#8217;t put it into words&#8230; we still tear up and say &#8216;it&#8217;s amazing&#8217;,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The second series of A Special School &#8211; based at Ysgol y Deri &#8211; begins on Monday at 20:30 on BBC One Wales. \u00a0 <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-64270567?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Equipment bought by a school is allowing disabled pupils to experience the sensation of walking for the first time. Fourteen-year-old wheelchair user Seren, a pupil of Ysgol y Deri &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}