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SEAN and JENNY ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE  
 
 
 News Video:
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San Antonio, Texas, Coverage on October 26, 2011

KSAT ABC TV


KABB - Fox News

Houston's KPRC TV Coverage:

June 13, 2011

January 11, 2011

Christmas 2009: Interview with Dr. Nina Rios-Doria
 
KVUE - Austin, Texas TV
 
Most Recent Print Story:Sangre de Cristo Chronicle
 
 KBTX   October 2, 2009   @   Bryan/College Station 
       
CLICK HERE:   KLTV NEWS VIDEO   May 6, 2009

                                                                                            
                        
                                                                                                                                                                         
 
Sobriety Checkpoints for Texas Proposed

Sean cannot speak, but he communicated  via computer with Sen. John Carona, who is trying to make sobriety checkpoints for drunken drivers legal in Texas. Sean urged senators to have Texas join 39 states that allow police to set up roadblocks to look for drunken drivers. "I know there was a reason I did not die in the truck," Carter told members of the Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security. Speakers connected to a keyboard mounted on his wheelchair allowed lawmakers to hear his remarks.

"One of the things I have chosen to do to make this life livable is to ensure no one else has to live like I do," he said.

 

 

 

Mothers Against Drunk Driving, police and many local government associations support creating sobriety checkpoints, which have been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court but haven’t been allowed in Texas since 1994. That’s when the state Court of Criminal Appeals ruled they violated the Texas Constitution because there were no statewide guidelines.

(AP March 5, 2009)

                                                                                         

Sean And Jenny are now taking advantage of Sean's ability to communicate and together they share their story by speaking to groups about the experience that placed Sean in his wheelchair.

  

Schools are now beginning to reschedule WhenSeanSpeaks for additional presentations, reflecting the impact they have had upon their students.

 

 

They have spoken to troubled teens at a facility in Vernon, TX, for the past 4 years, and Sean has spoken for "Think First" an organization sponsored by Baylor Institute of Rehabilitation, that reaches out to young people in an effort to prevent Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries.


 

They have also spoken before the Texas EMS, Trauma and Acute Care Services Advisory Foundation (TETAF) and the Governor's EMS, Trauma and Acute Care Advisory Council (GETAC). In fact, Sean is now a member of the Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Council and is on the Mentorship/Advisory Committe for the Texas EMS, Acute Care Advisory Foundation representing Survivors of Trauma.

 

                                                                                          

  Texoma's  Home Page features two video with articles:

 

  Sean Carter Delivers Sobering Speech

 

  Drunk Driving Leads to Brain Injury, Message of Hope

 

  The Dallas News

 

  Star Telegram

 

  The Austin Statesman

 

  Lufkin Daily News

 

  Kilgore News Herald 

 

 

Go to:     www.google.com 

type in:  sobriety checkpoints Sean Carter

There are papers all around the state that have carried the story..

 

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He has been featured in print and video by;

 

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas' Fox TV Channel 4

Arklatlelx TV station

Wichita Falls TV Station, KFDX Channel 3

Dallas TV Station, KDAF 33

Tyler TV, KLTV

 

Print Articles have been in:

The "Gonzales Chronicle", Gonzales, TX

"The Miner", Red River, NM

"Pulse" magazine

Baylor Institute of Rehabilitation's 2007 Annual Report

"Info Magazine", July 2008 issue

The "Tyler Morning Press", May 8.2009