YOU will, no doubt, be familiar with the expression ?Don?t believe everything you read in the newspaper?.
I refer to your front-page story ?Go-ahead for town centre flats? (June 26) in which you report the view voiced at the planning committee that few people with learning difficulties will be able to drive.
In my professional
experience this is not true. Those with learning difficulties may well need more time both in preparation for the theory test and during the examination itself, but this is readily available.
A learning difficulty is certainly not a barrier to gaining a driving licence.
I suspect those councillors concerned intended to refer to those with learning disabilities.
I write merely to give those councillors the opportunity to retract this ill-researched statement and thereby minimise the distress they will have caused to those with learning difficulties currently preparing for the driving test and, indeed, the many who have successfully passed it.
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