{"id":183144,"date":"2026-05-03T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183144\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:24:06","slug":"go-baby-go-program-empowers-children-with-disabilities-at-university-of-scranton-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183144\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Go Baby Go&#8217; program empowers children with disabilities at University of Scranton event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children with disabilities in Lackawanna County experienced the thrill of driving adapted cars for the first time at University of Scranton&#8217;s &#8220;Go Baby Go&#8221; event. <\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>, children with disabilities had their first chance to drive, thanks to the &#8220;Go Baby Go&#8221; program at the University of Scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The university held the event at the Byron recreational complex, giving students the opportunity to showcase their modified cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The toy cars were adapted to meet the unique mobility needs of 10 local children with various disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>One recipient was 10-year-old Dylan, who lives with both autism and a rare genetic disorder known as &#8216;Williams syndrome.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can see the joy in his face, he&#8217;s just a very happy kid, very happy-go-lucky, and yeah, he wants to be on the go, as you can tell,&#8221; said Amy Johnson from Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The family-friendly event kicked off at noon and wrapped up at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children with disabilities in Lackawanna County experienced the thrill of driving adapted cars for the first time at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-183144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}