Separate gym offers ’safer’ workout to people with disabilities
October 1st, 2008From the Orange County Register:
The Goodwill of Orange County, California, has opened a new 12,000-square foot gym, designed especially for people with disabilities at a cost of $7 million. The goal is to create a workout that is “really accessible,” says a Goodwill official.
“In our general society, when we think of gyms, we think of healthy people exercising and they’re physically fit,” said Mae-Ghan Fletcher, a services coordinator with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Costa Mesa office. “At Goodwill, everyone has some sort of a disability so it’s a little bit of a safer environment. This is a place where you don’t have to compare yourself to others.”
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