The League

The League

Written by Betty Lou Driver, a former patient of The League

The League sees us beyond the present.

The League helps us to become our best.

The League Provides us with medical care.

The League teaches us with the heart.

The League knows us as God’s special children.

 

Betty Lou Driver wrote “The League” to show her appreciation for the compassionate care that she received while being a patient at The Children’s League. Dr. Phelps, her provider at The Children’s League and CRI, was instrumental in making her the person she became and believing in her when no one else did. She was a patient at the Children’s Rehabilitation Institute (CRI), later known as the Kennedy Krieger Institute. At the Institute, she received speech and physical therapy. After learning to read and write, she returned home.

She was able to go to school in Allegany County, making her the first child with a developmental disability to attend public school in the county. After attending college at Madison College, later known as James Madison University, she started training as a physical therapist. Betty Lou later returned to CRI, joining the physical therapy staff.

After dedicating 31 years to the Institute, Betty Lou retired. After her retirement, she began writing a book about her life story titled “We Can Win!” She hoped that her story could be used to encourage parents who have a child with disabilities. She will be greatly missed.

For more information about Betty Lou or to hear about her life story, please watch this YouTube video filmed at the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s 75th birthday party.