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MDA’s award-winning bimonthly national magazine goes to everyone registered with MDA, as well as to MDA clinics, researchers and subscribers.
Quest publishes articles on all aspects of living with a neuromuscular disease, and updates on research findings. Quest’s circulation is 125,000.
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Check Out the New Digital Version of Quest! |
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Game to Get Away
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Online games provide an alternate world
in which to play, say gamers with neuromuscular
diseases. Here’s a primer of terminology,
gaming options, social tips and
info on how playing may affect muscles.
In addition, Kid Quest, page 69, provides
Internet gaming safety tips for kids.
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Stories by Topic
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Quest
Volume 2, Number 3, 1995
COVER
- Living With SMA: The Joy of Toys
Mary Claire Ellis, 4, is thrilled by a talking storybook, while Cory Carrier, 8, deploys knights are warriors for a medieval castle siege. These are just two of the toys specially suited to kids with SMA and other neuromuscular diseases.
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FEATURES |
- Technology Transforms the Workplace
From desktop publishing to custom programming, people with neuromuscular diseases are using the personal computer to earn a living in ways that were unheard of only a few years ago.
- Clinical Trials: Where Are We Now?
MDA is assisting in dozens of trials of potential treatments for neuromuscular diseases. Here's a roundup of what's been learned and which trials are still open.
- Home, Sweet, Accessible Home
Adapting a home to accommodate a resident with neuromuscular disease doesn't have to cost a fortune. With low-cost supplies from your neighborhood hardware store, volunteer labor and a lot of imagination, you can modify almost any room for greater accessibility.
- Justice for All
Tucson attorney Bill Altaffer, recipient of the 1995 MDA National Personal Achievement Award, is committed to the cause of peace and justice for everyone, including people with disabilities.
- Living With ALS: Writing and Talking the High-Tech Way
Among the many concerns of people facing ALS, one question looms large: If I lose the ability to speak and write, how will I communicate? The computer has changed life for people with ALS and disabilities of all kinds.
- Research Updates
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