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Glenna Taylor (parent):
My name is Glenna Taylor and my son’s name is Kevin Webb.
We live in Glasgow, Kentucky.
He owns his own business. It’s called Webb Taylor Horseback Riding And Boarding. He started his business through the Kentucky Council On Developmental Disabilities, which put out some grants of nine thousand dollars for people to start their own business and Kevin applied for it and got it. (Mom actually applied).
And he also applied for a Pass Plan through the Social Security Administration to help people be self-sufficient.
Kevin can say just a few words. He talks more in gestures. His intake is real good; it’s his output. He just turned forty.
He opened his business April of 2006. He boards horses, breaks them, we have birthday parties. He has to feed every morning and night and that’s about two hours and then he goes down there during the day, cleans up, and then he has customers come. I don’t know; he probably works in it maybe twenty hours a week. Sometimes a little bit more because he has to go get hay and feed, and he is really a good entrepreneur. We’ve made money every year.
You know, what we have seen with Kevin owning his own business, when he goes in a restaurant, you know before he owned his business you’d go in a restaurant and people would say: “Well what does Kevin do?” And I’m thinking you can’t tell ‘em anything because he wasn’t doing anything. Right? ‘Cause he didn’t have a job.
Now that he owns his business, he’s known in the community as a businessperson. The mayor knows him. At his grand opening we had 125 people at it: the county judge, legislators, and then friends and neighbors,
He loves what he does. He loves being a business owner. We just got a few new customers. We’ll see how that turns out.