Wheel World News Issue 38 November | Page 15

WHEEL WORLD NEWS

November 2018

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Each month, we want to highlight a professional that works within the spinal cord injury community, hear their story and read about all the remarkable things they provide individuals within the community.

This month, we are highlighting Jenny Nordine with for Driving to Independence. She is going to tell us about who she is, what she contributes to the community, and what she enjoys most about it.

This month, meet...

Jenny Nordine

I am proud to have many descriptions of who I am and strive to be. I am an Occupational Therapist. My work as an occupational therapist inspired me to pursue adaptive driving years ago. I felt this was the largest piece of independence each of us are looking for. As individuals, we want to be able to live and work where we choose, participate in our communities socially, care for our families and ourselves, run errands, attend events, to name just a few. If an individual is limited by their function or use of mobility equipment to their home

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