Hoyt regularly raced in the Boston Marathon with his father, Dick Hoyt, who pushed his wheelchair.
Tag: Disabilities
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A Radical Experiment in Mental Health Care, Tested Over Centuries
In the Belgian town of Geel, families have long taken in people with psychiatric conditions. Could this approach work elsewhere?
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Britney Spears Didn’t Feel Like She Could Live ‘a Full Life.’ There’s Another Way.
Experts call it a consequential change in the care of some older people and others with limits on their mental functioning.
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I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating
Now that I signal my disability with a white cane, I find that I have tapped a well of visible kindness.
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Greg Wittine, Once a Hero for Disabled Boy Scouts, Dies at 67
As a young man with cerebral palsy, he gained notice for his quest to be an Eagle Scout and changed Scouting. But his name had been mostly lost to popular memory.