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By Michelle Fisher
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Special needs, by definition, means there is no single, surefire way to afford students
with disabilities the same high level of safety their typical peers have on the school bus. Miriam Manary, a senior research associate with the University of Michigan Trans-
portation Research Institute since 1988, said there are many ways to address students’ health care or personal needs during transportation, including various travel vests, inte- grated child seats, transportation monitors and crashworthy wheelchairs. She offered two simple recommendations to school-district transportation directors:
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provide high-quality staff training on special needs transportation best practices and include all the stakeholders in the planning process, including parents, the child, thera- pists, teachers, product manufacturers, drivers and attendants. “All the players have key information to contribute, and when all fully understand
the best solution, then there is less chance that a safe approach will be circumvented by a shortcut, miscommunication or well-intentioned but off-target innovation,” said Manary, who is a NHTSA child passenger safety technician instructor. With autism diagnoses on the rise, Manary said it is a challenge to safely secure the
child with behavioral problems who is bent on escaping, or the “Houdini” student. “Te real solution for kids who defeat their occupant protection is to figure out the
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needs and motivations that are creating the problem,” she added. “Tere is no one-size- fits-all solution.” Connie Murray, president of E-Z-On Products, agreed that every student with special needs has quirks. During her 30 years in school transportation, she has heard the same
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