Down Syndrome with Drive License??????

[jazzy]

That is fanastic. My future daughter in law's nephew will be born in Nov and he has DS. The doctor told his mother her baby's brain is not develop proper and will not be able to talk etc... so I guess there is many difference level of DS. Mild, average and worst of DS, is this how they describe people with DS? Just alike they describe deaf people.

 

[jazzy]

I met a guy who doesn't look like he has Down's syndrome. It was after talking to him for maybe 15 minutes, I realized he is of low IQ. I checked with someone that knew him well and he told me that he has low IQ and he can drive. He is careful in driving and he works odd jobs like raking lawns.

I know someone who is mentally challenge and drive a car and goes to work. So what isit so big deal about it?

 

[posts from hell]

My cousin has DS and speaks 4 languages.

I've seen things that brings more hilarity.

How about this?

I've seen a Blind dude driving in the mountains on highway 36 here in Colorado.
That same Blind dude also drove the Interstate 70 in Kansas.
Of course he does not have a license.

To further clarify: The degree of blindness is he has glass eyes. That means he has NO eyes.

 

[Sosie]

Remember the TV show? Life goes on from 1989 to 1993?

Good show and I miss that show. I don't think Corky ever drive. He does have down syndrome.

Life goes on

Yes, I remember I used to watch that show. Corky did a great job as actor. I can not imagine how he does it.
Great job, Corky!!! I sometimes wonder what he is doing right now...

 

[JennyB]

It is things like this that annoy the hell out of me. The amount of oppression the Deaf community puts on the disabled community appalls me. For a group of people with perceived disability that face the same systemic oppression in many cases, we are wholly ignorant and unaware.

 

[Grummer]

It is things like this that annoy the hell out of me. The amount of oppression the Deaf community puts on the disabled community appalls me. For a group of people with perceived disability that face the same systemic oppression in many cases, we are wholly ignorant and unaware.

yep, the roots of it lies in the artifical demarcation brought on about from Tom Humperies's definition of "Deaf" in 1973. Basically the idea was to shift from the impairment-related framework to a more linguisitic-cultural theoritical focus, this provided for way the "Deaf" peope to deny anything associated with "disabillity" a very tragic error but it happened.