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ANNOUNCER: From our neighbourhood to yours...
MAN: I'm Keith Gillard for Accessible Media.
In a community centre hall, kids of all ages and abilities
test out and ride a variety of adapted tricycles
and bicycles at You Can Ride Too Bike-fitting Day.
(Ringing bicycle bell)
The adaptive bicycle loan pool
provides bikes to children with special needs.
The free program is a partnership between
paediatric physiotherapists,
occupational therapists
and the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' Society.
Trent Magis is a volunteer physiotherapist
for You Can Ride Too.
Today, as you can see, we are getting bikes fitted
for kids with special needs or physical disabilities,
trying to get as many bikes out to families as we can.
We're hoping to get about 40 bikes out today.
We had about 30 bikes out about a month ago
out to families already, so we're just trying to
keep up with all the kids coming in for their bikes.
We've got kids with autism that we'll be able to help out,
kids with cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and then
you know, those are kind of the common ones,
but there's a lot of other more rare conditions
that we're able to help out.
KEITH: Doreen Suter and her 16-year-old daughter Larissa
stopped by to pick up her brand-new bike.
She talks about her daughter and the difference
she believes the bicycle will make in her family.
DOREEN: She has ataxic cerebral palsy,
so it limits her mobility and her balance.
It's hard when you have a younger daughter
that's able to do so many other things that Larissa isn't.
Then you know you just feel horrible
that she doesn't have the same opportunities.
So it's thrilling to know that they can do things together.
KEITH: For more information
about the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' Society
and the You Can Ride Too program, check out...
For Accessible Media, I'm Keith Gillard.