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SALINA David Powell has always dreamed of having a car of his own.
“I’m an impatient person. I want what I want when I want it and had to wait on other people up until now, so it’s like, I want to go somewhere and just get up and go. It’s freaking awesome,” Powell said.
After a process that was two and a half years long, Powell finally has a license and a specially modified car for him to drive independently. He recently drove himself to his job at Independent Connection for the first time.
Powell was born with leg and arm deformities that resulted in him having no hands and malformed legs. As the oldest of four kids, Powell saw his younger siblings eventually get their licenses before he did. Powell admits that his misplaced priorities earlier in his life stunted his ability to get his own car or achieve other things for himself.
David Powell has always dreamed of having a car of his own.
“I’m an impatient person. I want what I want when I want it and had to wait on other people up until now, so it’s like, I want to go somewhere and just get up and go. It’s freaking awesome,” Powell said.
After a process that was two and a half years long, Powell finally has a license and a specially modified car for him to drive independently. He recently drove himself to his job at Independent Connection for the first time.
Powell was born with leg and arm deformities that resulted in him having no hands and malformed legs. As the oldest of four kids, Powell saw his younger siblings eventually get their licenses before he did. Powell admits that his misplaced priorities earlier in his life stunted his ability to get his own car or achieve other things for himself.
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Organizations in Kansas pushing to have people with disabilities put in Phase 1 of Vaccine Distribution
Coatney says those with disabilities living in a congregate situation or living at home and their attendants are at an equally high risk
December 14, 2020 7:45 PM Kaitlyn Shive
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KOAM NEWS- In a web conference Monday morning, Southeast Kansas Independent Living, The Self-Advocate Coalition of Kansas, Prairie Independent Living Resource Center, Independent Connection, Topeka Independent Living Resource Center and Kansas ADAPT joined together to express their concern with the Kansas vaccine distribution plan.
“The group home settings and people who have in home care should also be included in those first line workers because they are all people who are extremely at risk, people who have care providers just like this is happening in nursing facilities, so we want all people to be protected but we think those with disabilities should ha