How easy would it be to travel as a wheelchair user?  

My country would be difficult not that I don't want you to visit my homeland. Unfortunately my goverment (locally and national) didn't focus much attention to people like your son and me (I'm disable but not in wheelchair). But there are some places in my country that are friendly for people in wheelchair. And most amusement parks and malls are wheelchair friendly. Anyway, if you decide to visit my country you can visit me (joke!), seriously there's a lot of people that will help you with your son. My counrty is Philippines.

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i think UK is the best country, i work as a care assistant in UK. is very convenient in this country. and is not far from your country as well. i think it will be good for your lovely son. travel in wheelchair for a long period is not good for anyone. i hope this info can help. good luck and god bless.

In my country, maybe the specialist equipments are unenlightened, but humam are accommodating. And the western countries may be easy to travel.

Well,if you are going to travel in my country your son would have no problem in using a wheelchair as even the airport itself have their own wheelchair with a ready staff to assist your every needs. Then, a staff would be the one to assist you and even help your in moving the wheelchair around the airport until you reach your shuttle bus then their is also incline patio included where a wheelchair bound could pass then the some vehicles too have recliner where a wheelchair could easily goes out and in without too much problem as it is already built on the design of the vehicles. You may feel comfortable traveling as the airport personnel will assist you and your child.

I have seen that here in the UK there has been alot of curbs dropped as well as lots of improvements to the slopes for wheel chairs to get into the buildings.The only problem is that some of them are not designed very well as i found that when i was in a wheelchair it was ok getting down the slope but when it comes to getting up a slope there was a bit of a lip that was too high.I do not know about other countrys.

Thinking about it, seems difficult. But it should not deprive him of traveling. I also wished that my parents could get to travel next year. My mothers legs get numbed when she walks for a longer period. But I still want her to enjoy life and travel.

You yourself gave the answer, that is your country. I think India would be difficult for the wheelchair traveler. Because the conditions of the roads
there are very bad. But India is a marvelous country for traveling.

I think that here in the US, it is fairly easy to travel with a wheelchair. There are still some places where it is difficult to use a wheelchair, but overall, the government has been doing more and more to accommodate wheelchairs.

I do not have a child or anyone in my family who uses a wheelchair, but I would imagine that it would be a horrible problem. It seems that the US would be more interested in making sure that the wheelchair bound would be taken care of.

Hi Maxine,
I think that in many countries (such as mine) there havs been a big development as to the needs of the disabled. But there is a long way to go yet. It takes a lot of money to even change the street crossings so as to permit a wheelchair to cross easily. In my country this is beings done lately.
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