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Drive Focus visual search skills training tool for novice and experienced drivers
​Drive Focus: Brain training for driving.
 
​Drive Focus is a new visual search skills training tool for novice and experienced drivers. While watching videos of actual drives filmed throughout North America, you recognize and respond to critical items by touching on them.
 
Drive Focus is a fun, interactive way to develop your skills. Interactive videos are arranged in “Tours”, or groups of six or more drives from a geographic location. Each drive ranges in length from 2-1/2 to 3 minutes. You will notice a difference with as little of 10 minutes use a d
ay.

Drive Focus allows individuals to practice visual search skills anywhere, anytime on the iPad. Sharpen essential driving skills while having fun! Available on the Apple App Store.

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Youth and Adolescents

Driving and Aspergers: Balancing Independence and Safety

Educational video for those considering driving, and their families.
Produced by the Center for Cognitive Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital with funding from Autism Speaks
View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9vOkKRBNCI

Creating Successful Transitions to Community Mobility Independence for Adolescents 

AOTA Course: Creating Successful Transitions to Community Mobility Independence for Adolescents
Driving and Community Mobility: Occupational Therapy Strategies Across the Lifespan
by Mary Jo McGuire (Author, Editor), Elin Schold Davis (Author, Editor)

The scope of driving and community mobility includes readiness to drive, to competence to drive, to the transition to alternative modes of transportation. The issues are complex, and the consequences related in independence in driving and community mobility are life-altering.
This publication gathers researchers and clinicians in a team effort to offer expert guidance for occupational therapy's work in the ever-developing practice area of driving and community mobility. Topics include psychosocial considerations, ethics, cognition, vision, evaluation, adaptive equipment, older drivers, and youth with special needs.

Addressing the Needs of Students With Cognitive and Social Limitations Behind the Wheel  

AOTA Course: Addressing the Needs of Students With Cognitive and Social Limitations Behind the Wheel
American Occupational Therapy Association CE on CD - Driving Assessment and Training Techniques: 
Addressing the Needs of Students With Cognitive and Social Limitations Behind the Wheel 
Miriam Monahan, MS, OTR, CDRS, CDI

Students with Asperger syndrome, nonverbal learning disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, and attention deficit disorders, as well as those with lower IQ scores, present a challenge to occupational therapists practicing in the area of driver rehabilitation. This highly visual and creative course addresses skills deficits related to those diagnoses. Using methods and tools that address the skills needed for driving, including video review, participants will be able to assess and make decisions about a student's readiness to drive and put the techniques learned directly into their practice. Participants will gain intervention techniques to help their clients develop the social and executive function skills necessary for specific driving tasks. 


I just finished the course "Driving Assessment and Training Techniques:  Addressing the Needs of Students with Cognitive and Social Limitations Behind the Wheel". 

Before I signed up for the course, I was uncertain if this would be a good use of my personal money for my continuing education.  I had certainly heard of you at ADED conferences but had limited direct experience from your instruction.  Your course was worth every penny!  Thank you for making it 
PRACTICAL
!!!! 

​Also, the information was presented in a very structured outline to organize the information for easier learning! Thank you tremendously!
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Christy Horner, OTR/L, CDRS
Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute

Nashville, Tennessee
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