In the hallway outside Dr. Erkan Kaplanoglu’s lab at UTC, two-year-old Amelia Aiken put her hands on the pink wheels of her new mobility chair and started moving forward.
She took to it almost immediately. The smile on her face said it all.
For her mother, Kyndal Aiken, the moment meant a lot.
“Yeah, it’s very rewarding. It’s very exciting. You can’t anticipate what her reaction is going to be,” Aiken said about the July 30 introduction of Amelia to the chair built in Kaplanoglu’s Biomechatronic and Assistive Technology Lab in UTC’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. “You hope she’s going to respond to it well, but there’s nothing that I can make her do. So it’s very exciting to see her take right to it.”…