Finding Wheels

Are your students with visual disabilities prepared to take control of their transportation needs? Finding Wheels will help you teach them to:

» Choose and arrange transportation
» Prepare a transportation budget
» Ask for a ride from a co-worker
» Exchange services for rides
» Hire and fire a driver

Finding Wheels gives visually impaired adolescents (and newly blind adults) the strategies they need to cope with the frustration and the interpersonal challenges of nondriving. When other students are taking driver’s ed, students with visual impairments will need the alternative this curriculum provides. Through four young adults’ firsthand stories and interviews of live nondrivers, students are introduced to different approaches to independent travel.

Each of the 10 units in Finding Wheels includes objectives, a narrative portion, and activities for discussion, independent learning, and seeking information within the community. A glossary and a listing of resources are also available at the end of the curriculum.

Teachers of students with visual impairments should include this curriculum in courses in independent living skills. It provides an excellent way to teach personal decision making, as it applies to those who have visual impairments.