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Anne Marie Casper

Assistance Devices

• Anne Marie invented a device to enable an assistance dog to pull it's owners wheelchair and she hasn't stopped inventing since.

• Anne Marie began working on this invention when she was 7 years old. Her mother suffered from post-polio syndrome and had to be in a wheelchair on and off. She thought it would be a neat idea to tie a dog to the front of her mother's wheelchair so the dog could pull it.

• She continues to work on perfecting this invention and has gone on to invent other things such as a better harness for assistance dogs that improves balance and bracing and a leash that requires very little motor control.