Washington University (WashU) and Paraquad in St. Louis recently began studying the cardiovascular health of wheelchair users after incorporating adaptive gym equipment into their routines.

The Stephen A. Orthwein Center offers countless ways to regain your strength and health through adaptive exercise. This year, we added a cutting-edge piece of equipment to our facility — the AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill™.

Paraquad’s peer mentoring program is a tool to empower people with disabilities to explore the possibilities after a life-changing circumstance.

Paraquad is dedicated to helping you find things to do inside the St. Louis area that are both accessible and fun

The Stephen A. Orthwein Center offers an array of fully accessible, state-of-the art equipment. One of our most popular attractions is the Lokomat®, a gait training robot-assisted therapy machine that may be used with 1:1 training with an adaptive exercise specialist.

The Ticket to Work Program in Missouri broadens the horizons for what people with disabilities can do — individuals can get married, take a better job and save for the future without fear of losing their insurance coverage.

Paraquad has joined with other organizations that seek to remove barriers for people with disabilities to ask Metro for a six-month delay in implementing the cuts and for conversations to seek a different solution.

As August comes to an end and the war in Ukraine reaches its six-month mark, the majority of people with disabilities continue to face abandonment and imminent danger by Russian soldiers as humanitarian groups struggle to evacuate them from their war-ravaged homeland.

Paraquad in St. Louis has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant for training advocates and self-advocates to provide comprehensive sexuality education to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a group often excluded from any discussion of human sexuality.

MOSILC has developed this Community Needs Assessment to gather information about your community’s opinions, needs, and challenges for people with disabilities. It is MOSILC’s hope that by gathering this information it will provide MOSILC with important information on how to support people with disabilities within your community.