Special Needs Team Safety Roadeo
Posted by Judy Breck on January 17, 2008
The 11th National Roadeo will be held March 8, 2008 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Participants are Driver-Attendant Teams who are responsible for children in special needs buses. Simply reading though the events to be held during the Roadeo is a review for all of us of the skills and responsibilities those who work in this area have. The competition includes:
In the Roadeo, you will be judged in driving and backing a bus; loading, unloading and securing students in wheelchairs; and evacuating a special needs bus. During the skills events, teams must maintain behavioral control of special students on the bus.
Defywire is able to add dimensions of safety that are new in the 21st century to the transportation of students with disabilities and preschoolers, whose bus teams need similar skills as those for taking care of older special needs children. Defywire Mobile Guardian can make information about a child’s individual health and needs available in the mobile phone of the driver and attendant. The Defywire methods can also give Driver-Attendant Teams mobile phone connection to parents, guardians and health or other support as needed on an individual student basis.
