Wheelie Kids

Beyond Disability Wheelie Kids mission is to provide an inhome interactive communication self help program for physically disabled wheelchair school children with local partnerships, volunteers and recycled equipment

Beyond Disability has a clear evaluation process, aims and objectives.

Our local award-winning self-help programme directly addresses a need for physically disabled and disadvantaged wheelchair school children in the local community across the Mornington Peninsula.

Subject to approval which includes assessments as needed, we provide a laptop, multifunction printer and subsidised internet access, allowing up to 500 Mb of downloads a month. Our programme does not permit downloading music, playing games on line except as approved, or downloading/uploading large files of any type.

We partner TADVic, ComTECH, Anglicare, Brotherhood of St Lawrence,Rotary and others as needed.

S.E.Water has donated P4 laptops which are an invaluable donation for supporting Wheelie Kids.

Testimonial:
Tom has been with Beyond Disability since 1997, aged 5.

Tom's mum, Lena said: "The opportunity to experience the Internet in a small way, is a boon to Tom. Being the parents of a child with a disability can be an emotional, physical and financial challenge, but Beyond Disability has enabled our son to have access to a computer to build important computer skills that will serve him throughout life. Being virtually housebound, Beyond Disability allows Tom to communicate and explore a much broader world than that which normally would be accessible to him.

"Beyond Disability is unique as the only successful interactive communication program of its kind and we feel it provides an important service to its members, those in the community with special needs."

Lena also uses the limited Internet access and e-mail to research Tom's disability and has found vital information from supporting mothers' groups in the States.