Getting Around School

Miro Griffiths: Power Driven

Miro was born in 1989 in Birkenhead in the Wirral. Miro went to his local mainstream schools for both primary and secondary education, then going on to attend university.

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Miro describes the impact of getting his power wheelchair.

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My dad, he either raised funds or he bought a power chair so I started driving at the legal age of three, is how old I had a power chair. And it was just, it was so liberating really to, you know, I used to remember just running out of class into the playground and it just used to be so great, just being able to choose where I go, do what I want.

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