Orlando, FL

Teen Driver Safety Foundation proudly announces the third annual New Driver Car Control Clinic^® for teens with Type 1 diabetes to be offered at the 2013 Friends for Life Family Conference of Children with Diabetes in

Orlando, FL, July 9th, 2013.  The nationally acclaimed clinic is a hands-on, behind-the-wheel program that teaches new drivers and their parents what to do when something goes terribly wrong in the traffic stream. The program at Friends for Life has a special emphasis on the challenges facing new drivers who also have type 1 diabetes.

“All three of my children have taken and benefitted from the New Driver Car Control Clinic, including my daughter with type 1 diabetes. I welcome the Teen Driver Safety Foundation to FFL and appreciate the peace of mind it will bring to other parents of teen drivers with and without diabetes,” says Jeff Hitchcock, Founder and President of Children with Diabetes. “This program can help reduce the increased risk for automobile accidents that comes from being a teenager and living with type 1 diabetes. I strongly encourage teens coming to Friends for Life to attend.”

 Conference Information

Children with Diabetes presents our 14th annual family conference! Join our international group of world-renowned clinicians, researchers, physicians, adults, children, and families with diabetes to learn the most current information in diabetes care. Attend educational sessions and get cutting-edge ideas for your family's diabetes management. Participate in parent discussion groups and find new, creative ways to help and motivate your children. Watch toddlers and teens, young parents and grandparents, new diabetes professionals and practiced clinicians make new and lifelong friendships. This is a conference you won't ever forget!

 The Orlando Car Control Clinic on July 9th, 2013 is open only to new drivers with type 1 diabetes who are attending the Children with Diabetes Friends for Life: Orlando 2013 conference. The classroom portion of the Clinic is being held at the Friends for Life conference venue, and only registered conference attendees will be allowed into the classroom and later at the driving portion of the class. For information about attending the Friends for Life conference, please see:   www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/activities/Orlando2013

The cost of the clinic is $179.00 if you will be driving your own vehicle.

There is an additional charge of $28.00 if you need to have a vehicle provided.

 Conference Registration

 Use our online conference registration system to sign up for the conference. To register for the New Driver Car Control Clinic, Click on the link below July 9^th

 The Conference Venue and Reservations

Regarding Joshua’s Law: Please be advised that the New Driver Car Control Clinic is a valuable, effective, hands-on, behind-the-wheel program that puts teens into emergency situations (in a safe environment) to program their brain how to properly respond in an emergency, and according to a government study, it has been proven to save lives. It is not part of the Joshua’s Law curriculum requirements. However, 4 hours spent behind-the-wheel in the Clinic may be applied toward the 40 hours of “supervised driving with parent/guardian” portion of Joshua’s Law.

Remember, one in four teens will crash in their first year of driving.  New Driver Car Control Clinic graduates have a proven record of 77% fewer crashes than their untrained peers.  Now, there is something parents can do to make their new drivers safer.

The New Driver Car Control Clinic is all about changing the anatomy of an accident by pre-programming the sub-conscious to break the chain of panic -- to prepare the driver mentally and physically to react to surprises with skill and precision. And more importantly, to recognize impending danger earlier so that they never enter the emergency zone where accidents lurk. This popular behind-the-wheel Clinic focuses on teaching parents and teens critical accident-avoidance maneuvers and defensive-driving skills such as

• Eye Management - judging spatial relationships
• Steering Management - making the car go precisely where you want it to, even in an emergency and
• Brake Management - the so-called panic stop without the panic.
• The exercises are performed in a series of cone patterns in the family's own car on both Wet And Dry Pavement.

"Driving is a psychomotor skill," says Clinic founder David Thompson. "Just like learning to play the piano requires an actual keyboard, so does learning to control an automobile in an emergency demand that you actually drive a car."

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 How it Works & What's Required -- Parents are required at both the classroom and behind-the-wheel sessions. Behind-the-wheel sessions are limited to ten parent-student teams per session. Teens must have at least their Learner's Permit (Temps). The teen should have enough driving experience to be comfortable making the car go forwards, backwards, left and right. This usually requires from 4 to 8 hours behind the wheel. Families use their own car -- preferably the one the teen is most likely to end up driving. Each team receives a 90-minute classroom session on vehicle dynamics and human dynamics -- why the car, and the driver, behave the way they do in an emergency; -- 4 hours of in-car instruction and a 64-page workbook with diagrams of ten exercises, a log and a Parent-Teen contract so that they can continue to practice these life-saving maneuvers.