Powered mobility aids for disabled children under five: 'Essential', says one major charity; 'Unsafe', says the NHS. Patricia Slatcher looks at the arguments
You wouldn't take a two-year- old's legs away just because she might run into the road or fall over and hurt herself, so why deny young disabled children mobility aids on the grounds that they might hurt themselves?
This is just one of many persuasive arguments as to why disabled children under five have just as much right to powered and other types of mobility aids as any other disabled individual.
And it is being put forward with increasing vigour by the national charity Whizz-Kidz, which specialises in providing such equipment to children.
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