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Home » Press Releases » UW Health: Resident makes adaptive crayons for people with developmental disabilities
MADISON, Wis. – In 2025, a dusty plastic tub of crayons on a shelf sparked an idea in Dr. Amber McKenna’s mind to help improve the lives of people living with developmental disabilities. The idea may have fully come to life in 2026, but it really began four years earlier. In 2022, McKenna, now a physical medicine and rehabilitation resident at UW Health, was in her first residency program at Louis...