TAMPA — The kids released their wheelchairs and leg braces, the sticks that help them see and the iPads that help them speak, and piled them in a corner. They went to Merry Lynn Morris, with her ...

Most people have a friend, a family member or a loved one who is limited in their movements due to a physical disability of some kind. Some are born with those disabilities while others become ...

Merry Lynn Morris danced in a professional ballet company and studied at USF and Florida State. She rarely meshed her dance world and home life. The crisp rules of dance, the exacting finger positions ...

Merry Lynn Morris, a faculty member USF, affected by a tragedy that left her father wheel chair bound for 21 years, created an Omni-Directional, Hands-Free Rolling Dance Chair to give those in wheel ...

For about a decade, Merry Lynn Morris, the assistant director of the University of South Florida’s dance program, has been developing a power wheelchair for dancers, with the goal of exploring new ...

The kids released their wheelchairs and leg braces, the sticks that help them see and the iPads that help them speak, and piled them in a corner. They went to Merry Lynn Morris, with her twisting ...

As a choreographer who often collaborates with dancers with disabilities, Merry Lynn Morris has long thought that traditional manual and power wheelchair designs were constraining. Her work in ...

Oct. 26, 2013, 8:16 PM EDT / Source: MSNBC TV A chair that gives the disabled more freedom to move and express themselves through dance? Merry Lynn Morris joins Craig Melvin to discuss today's Big ...

An invention by a University of South Florida professor is getting national attention. Dance instructor Merry Lynn Morris is the inventor of the rolling dance chair. It is a high-tech way to help ...