Kathy Jo,

I learned to drive when my brother got fed up with having to cart me
everywhere.  John is a year older than I am, and I think it "cramped his
style" to have his little brother tag along. There was no public
transportation after 4:30 PM and on weekends where we lived.  He took me
out in his old beat up pickup truck on some dirt roads and cow pastures
miles from civilization (really easy to do in Wyoming!), and we
practiced until he felt I was safe enough to drive on real roads that
weren't busy.  We did this one Saturday without telling our parents
where we were going, and I probably drove over 150 miles.  I went and
got my license after that, as in 1978, there weren't any REALLY busy
streets in the whole state of Wyoming. Now I have no problems driving in
Denver traffic.

My wife Janet also has CP, and was a "guinea pig" for Wyoming Vocational
Rehab, and the University of Wyoming in the late '70's or early 80's.
Voc Rehab wanted more of its clients to be able to drive, and the
schools in the state were looking for a way to include students with
disabilities in driver's ed, so the driver's ed teacher prep program and
DVR instituted a summer program for some students with disabilities and
driver's ed teachers around the state to spend something like 4 weeks on
campus, where the students were taught how to drive, and the drivers ed
teachers learned how to figure out if, and how, a student with a
disability could safely drive.

Kendall Corbett

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950


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Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:24 PM
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Subject: Re: hi,

I learned to drive on my own. I conned a neighbor into taking to the
driving
test in 1955. Beenn driving ever since.
I'd say a lot of us on this list drive, Kathy Jo.  I learned to drive
while
in college and have driven for over 30 years.  My high school drivers ed
wouldn't teach me either but my dad paid for my driving lessons when I
needed to drive to an internship job 25 miles away.