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Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural: Conard Family – Part 2

Six-year-old Clara Conard plays the violin with the help of an assistive device designed by the Fab Lab at Independence Community College.
Six-year-old Clara Conard plays the violin with the help of an assistive device designed by the Fab Lab at Independence Community College.

The bow sweeps across the strings of the violin and the sound of the music floats across the room. But this isn’t just any violinist. It is a girl originally from China who is missing one hand.  She’s using an innovative and unique type of device with a prosthesis to play the violin, and she lives in rural Kansas.

Last week we met Shawn and Gayly Conard. Shawn is a family doctor at Minneola District Hospital, south of Dodge City.

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