Originally Posted by
chollie
It's pretty hard to prepare a special needs person when you can't even prepare an able-bodied person on what to expect. The information on the website is unreliable (NEXUS, for example, and requirements for infant food, medical exemptions). So how do you prepare a special needs individual, even someone who is mentally competent but physically handicapped, when you don't know yourself what you will encounter? Belts on? belts off? full body open-palm frisk? Wanding? Barking? Stay in wheelchair or be forced to argue to defend right to do so?
Originally Posted by
TSORon
Have you ever provided care for a special needs child? If not then there is no real point in trying to explain the realities of that kind of situation to you. If you have then you are being intentionally obtuse, which I have to admit would go against everything I have come to admire about your posting here (IOW I would have a hard time believing if of you).
Ron, how does your comment even begin to address Chollie's comment?
Perhaps you can enlighten us about how TSA prepares its employees to delicately handle special needs or disabled children? They should be able to travel, visit loved ones, and experience life just like the rest of us without being traumatized at a check point. You (as a TSO) are far more likely to have to face children with severe disabilities or special needs than terrorists.