Alex Cohick, 25, is autistic and suffers from an
intellectual disability, but he loves to go fast.
“Whenever we push him fast he puts his arms in the air and
says, ‘Woohoo!,’” Betsy Cohick, Alex’s mother, said.
Alex lives full-time in a group home in Lebanon now and
went to school at Melmark, in the Philadelphia area.
“It took us a couple of years to get him close to home,
because you have to go where a group home is available,” Betsy said. “So he was
in northern Philadelphia for a while, and then he moved to Reading. He kept
getting closer and closer to us. He has been here in Lebanon County for about
two years now.”
The Cohicks, who live in Palmyra, enjoy ice skating, biking
and other activities, but Alex requires special equipment to participate in
those activities.
While the Cohicks have successfully gotten Alex on the ice
at the Klick Lewis Arena, 101 Landings Drive, Annville, using a special sled
left behind by a paraplegic ice hockey player, Alex needs an Axiom Racer
Conversion to have a successful biking experience.
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