Crime & Safety

Training Wheels Offers Deaf Motorcycle Riding Class

This weekend 10 members of the deaf community will learn to ride a motorcycle.

This was submitted by Training Wheels. 

Wakefield resident Bob Bedrosian will be one of 10 Deaf students participating in the nation’s first Deaf Motorcycle Riding class this weekend in Framingham.

Each year Training Wheels, a motorcycle instruction business, receives a couple of requests from members of the deaf community to teach them how to ride a motorcycle. Although they love teaching people how to ride (20,000 since 2000), we have no experience with training Deaf students.

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A few people at Training Wheels put their heads together and attempted to develop a program that is both consistent and effective so when a Deaf person contacts them in the future they can accommodate them. With the help of interpreter Jessica Winiecki and several of our instructors they were able to come up with a curriculum based on our most popular offering The Motorcycle Safety Foundations Basic Rider Course.

We marketed the class to the deaf community in Massachusetts and received a terrific response. This weekend Bob and 9 other members of the Deaf community will learn ride a motorcycle in Framingham from 9:30-6:00 Saturday and Sunday.

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