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on 10/26/2008 This is helpful and good information, I needed to learn this.
on 11/22/2005 If you have an electric powerchair, show the child the console's light display, and the joystick, and how you change gears and put on hazrd lights, and explain that the battery makes the chair go, just like a car. The child's fascination for the chair then overides the fear of the disability.
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