Over a four-year period, Kevin Halsall designed and built the Omeo: a mobility device that gives people much greater freedom than a traditional wheelchair. In this article, Kevin shares his motivation and design process, and his friend Marcus shares the impact the Omeo has had on his life.

This pack contains a range of response activities complete with activity explainer videos for exploring thinking skills and developing emotional understandings and compassionate inquiry including:

• Blooms Higher Order Thinking activities
• Book Club guide for deepening text discussion
• A range of activities to explore emotional understanding, compassionate inquiry, empathy development, vocabulary and developing skills for self and co-regulation.

Themes explored include: adaptation, challenge, change, design, development, disability, engineering, idea, independence, innovation, Kevin Halsall, Marcus Thompson, mobility, Omeo, problem, prototype, Segway, social media, solution, technology, wheelchair