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Occupational Therapy for Driving & Community Mobility!

Explore OT's role with driving & community mobility!

  • Value of OT

    Explain the unique value occupational therapy expertise brings to driving rehabilitation

  • Meaning of Driving

    Explain the meaning of driving from the client, DRS, and individual perspective

  • OT Practice Framework & OT DRIVE

    Apply the OT Practice Framework & OT DRIVE to identify key performance skills needed for the task of driving

Course Description

Occupational therapy practitioners are positioned to address driving and community mobility. Our philosophical underpinnings, clinical tools and focus on meaning and function, uniquely qualified occupational therapy practitioners to support driving fitness and community mobility. In this course, gain a deeper understanding of how your role as an occupational therapy practitioner prepares you to address the driving and community mobility needs of your patients. Be inspired as you gain a deeper understanding from a client and experienced driver rehabilitation specialists (DRS). Spend time reflecting on your own journey with driving. Then, learn to apply the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework and OT DRIVE model to provide a guide for the analysis of the occupation of driving and the skills and components that facilitate safe and effective driving task performance. Upon completion you will understand the unique value of the occupational therapy practitioner for addressing driving risk and be able to differentiate this role from the OT driver rehabilitation specialist determining fitness to drive.

Adaptive Mobility Services is Your AOTA Approved Provider

AOTA Approved Provider #6874

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AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

  • Presenter & Author: Susan Touchinsky, OTR/L, SCDCM, CDRS Contributing Author & Presenters: Susan Pierce, OTR, SCDCM, CDRS, Wendy Starnes, OTR/L, SCDCM, DRS

  • AOTA CEUs/Contact Hours: 0.3 CEU/3.0 contact hours

  • Online Publication: 3/2023

  • Date & Location: ongoing, online

  • Level of learning/education level: introductory

  • Prerequisites: none

  • Instructional Method: online course, independent learning

  • AOTA Classification Codes: OT Process (evaluation) & Domain of OT (area of occupation, performance skills)

  • Course Completion Requirements: Learner will review full presentation, handout, & complete post exam and AOTA APP provider survey.

  • CE Provider & Contact: Adaptive Mobility Services, CE Administrator: [email protected] APP Provider #: 6874

We are committed to you!

Adaptive Mobility Services is committed to providing high quality, evidence based, education infused with practical experience, real & hypothetical case studies, a range of learning opportunities. It is our goal to help you reach your goals. Whether you are an OT looking to expand your practice in the clinic or ready to become a driver rehab specialist in the car, we are here to help! If you have any questions, comments, or would just like to say hello, email us!

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