[blindkid] O&M Instruction for Aubrie

[Jessica Trask]

Bonnie,
That's very interesting the O&M instructor isn't allowed to transport 
students. What is the reasoning for this? I know when I finally started 
getting O&M instruction if needed the O&M instructor was able to 
transport me if was needed but luckily when I started getting O&M 
instruction when I was a sophomore in high school the transportation 
thing wasn't really needed because we were just doing things in the 
local area around where I lived. Also, when I started getting O&M 
instruction I was living in Park City Utah so not much was needed. 
However,once I moved down to Salt Lake the O&M instructors where able 
to transport the students if asoblutely necessary. Where do you guys 
live?  Is your daughter totally blind or severely visually impaired? I 
have Albinism so that was part of the reason I didn't start getting O&M 
services until I was a Sophomore in high school. I believe that it was 
strange that I wasn't getting it before then but partly I believe that 
had a lot to do with the that I was living in a small town when I first 
moved to Park City. It also coinsited with the time most of my friends 
were getting their driver's license too so I wonder if since I couldn't 
drive that was they figured  would be ok to wait until that point time.

-- 
Jess
Jessica Trask

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