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Disability and Health Center Opens at Slippery Rock University
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa - The Center on Disability and Health, a new resource center for people with disabilities that promotes healthy lifestyles, opened this month at Slippery Rock University, officials reported. The center provides exercise programs for community residents and their families with disabilities, including horseback riding, aquatics, physical fitness, adapted physical education and recreational activities.Faculty and students from SRU's Adapted Physical Activity Program head the center, funded by a $161,000 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Dr. Robert Arnhold, center director. Operating from four offices in Strain Behavioral Science Building and the Pearl K. Stoner Educational Complex, the center also provides parent and teacher training, printed materials and professional contacts to help families."People with disabilities are even more vulnerable to weight problems," said Arnhold, professor of exercise and rehabilitative sciences at SRU. "If we can get people who have disabilities healthier and active now, we'll reduce a lot of secondary health conditions, and we'll save on health care costs in the long run."The program, he added, has been designed to provide individuals with disabilities and their families with information, support, and activity programs within the community in which they live. Exercise and rehabilitative sciences instructor Nancy Banner will continue to teach equestrian facilitated riding and serve as project coordinator of the center, Arnhold said. New faculty member Wendy Fagan, instructor in the adapted program, will teach undergraduate courses within the minor, teaching students how to adapt workouts and activities for individuals with disabilities.Visit Slippery Rock University: www.sru.edu"