Indoor recreation equipment
The Recreation Coach at the Ingle Farm Recreation Centre, who works with children with disabilities, contacted TADSA to ask if we could make some equipment similar to some he had seen overseas.
Stoney Ground for Pig Farmer
A Pig farmer who relies on his 4 wheel walker was having trouble walking around his farm because the ground is quite stoney in parts & can be very muddy when it is wet. We were asked to come up…
A boy and his bike/s
TADSA first assisted client Aidan (pictured below) when he was about five years old. Aidan was born with phocomelia major, a rare malformation of the limbs. At that time, Aidan had a bike which needed modifications to allow him to…
The Little Things
Some TADSA projects can be very involved and challenging taking hundreds of hours to complete, while others are less complicated and can be completed in an afternoon. What they all have in common is that they improve the quality of…
All terrain four wheeled wheelbarrow
Our client, Peter, has a spinal cord injury which has adversely affected his right limbs. He lives on a large property on the Fleurieu Peninsula and required a very stable four wheeled, all terrain, tipping wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow had to…
Tow-bar/pole for bike
TADSA volunteer Des Chabrel was asked to make a tow-bar to facilitate towing a trike behind a bike. This is the second one he has built and he incorporated modifications made by the original client’s Dad. The tow-bar is made…
Head band for hearing aid
Many of TADSA’s projects can be completed using traditional metalwork, woodwork or other skills and technologies. Recently, however, TADSA volunteer Stuart Crisp completed a project using a more modern approach. Our client Peter was born without ears and with a…
TADSA working with schools
TADSA has completed many projects for special schools/units over its 40 years. Our volunteers not only design, build and modify equipment, but they have also repaired devices which a school may have had in a broken, unusable state for months…
Sammi wore out her Freedom Wheels bike
Freedom Wheels is a wonderful program where TADSA volunteers modify standard bikes with a range of prefabricated accessories so that children with disabilities can do something that most of us take for granted – ride a bike.
Guide Dog
Guide Dogs SA/NT came to TADSA to ask us if we could build a dog simulator for children so they could train with it before starting work with a real dog.
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