ADED eLearning

Saturday Night Product Presentations | For ALL ADED Conference Attendees | Dinner Included
Learning Level: Introductory | Contact Hours: 3 hours

Driver rehabilitation professionals rely on innovative products and technologies to support safe, independent community mobility. This session features product-focused presentations highlighting emerging tools, adaptive equipment, vehicle modifications, assessment technologies, and service delivery innovations designed specifically for driver rehabilitation practice. Presenters will provide an overview of product features, clinical applications, implementation considerations, and real-world use cases. Emphasis will be placed on how these solutions address functional limitations, enhance safety, support evidence-informed decision-making, and improve client outcomes across diverse populations. Attendees will gain practical insight into product capabilities, appropriate client selection, integration into clinical workflows, and key considerations such as training, compliance, and funding pathways. This session offers an opportunity to explore new advancements, ask questions directly of product experts, and evaluate solutions that may enhance driver rehabilitation services. Presenters will be representatives from the manufacturers of these products featuring Diamond Level Sponsors

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key features and intended clinical applications of selected driver rehabilitation products and technologies.
• Describe how these products support functional assessment, intervention planning, and safe community mobility outcomes.
• Compare product options based on client presentation, safety considerations, and practice setting variables.
• Analyze implementation considerations including training requirements, funding pathways, regulatory factors, and workflow integration.
• Apply product information to hypothetical or real-world driver rehabilitation case scenarios to support informed decision-making.

Keynote | Mental Health and Driving: Risks and Resilience in Behind the Wheel
Johnathon Ehsani, PhD, MPH
Learning Level: All | Contact Hours: 1 hour

Driving is a complex task which can be influenced by mental health. Examine how conditions such as depression, anxiety, and ADHD affect driving performance and safety. Highlights include risk factors, the emerging role of positive psychology, including mindfulness, and sense of purpose, in supporting safe driving. 

Driving is a complex task that requires sustained attention, sound judgment, and rapid decision-making, all of which can be influenced by mental health. This session will examine how conditions such as depression, anxiety, and ADHD affect driving performance and safety. In addition to understanding risk factors, the presentation will highlight the emerging role of positive psychology, including mindfulness, and sense of purpose in supporting safe driving.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze how common mental health conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety, ADHD) influence driving behavior.
• Describe the specific ways in which mental health symptoms manifest in contribute to crash risk or impaired performance.
• Examine the role of positive psychology constructs (e.g., mindfulness and sense of purpose) in promoting safe driving.

Lunch & Learn with Exhibitors
Learning Level: Introductory | Contact Hours: 1 hour 

These are structured sessions with a single company over lunch. The corporate presenter and table participants will have concentrated discussions on products/services and client applications. These discussions aim to provide detailed information on recent advancements in products/services for driver rehabilitation, offering thorough insights into client specifications and application. By using this interactive format, participants are invited to engage in lively and open discussions, ask questions, and build an understanding of products/services and their real-world uses.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe recent advancements in driver rehabilitation products and services, including key features, client specifications, and appropriate clinical applications.
  
• Apply product and service knowledge to real-world driver rehabilitation scenarios by engaging in discussion, asking targeted questions, and evaluating appropriate solutions for specific client needs.

Seminar 1 | Executive Function Assessment in the Comprehensive Driver Assessment 
Jaclyn Davin, OTR, CBIS, CDRS, PDI
Learning Level: Intermediate | Contact Hours: 3 hours

Executive functioning skills combine many high-level cognitive skills that impact the strategic level of driving execution. Planning, organizing, sequencing, problem solving, judgement, insight, error recognition and emotional regulation directly impact performance on the road. Assessing this area in the clinic can be elusive and feel deductive in nature. Are we maximizing the opportunities in the clinic?  Are we providing relevant in car tasks to assess these skills? This short course will aim to explore evidenced based assessments that can be utilized to determine executive functioning skills developed or retained in clients of varied diagnostic groups. There will be opportunity to explore the power of clinical observations of behavior and approach to tasks particularly, in respect to strategic skill assessment. Discussion and exploration of in car skills to imbed in the on-road assessment to capture executive functioning skills and strategic driving skills. Case studies will be shared.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain one new method of assessing executive function in the clinic setting
• Expand the on-road assessment of strategic driving skills by applying one new technique to their in car evaluation for a particular population

Seminar 2 | New Evidence-based Resources for Autistics Pursuing Driving & Communication Mobility

Chelsea Ward McIntosh, DRP, Miriam Monahan, OTD, OTRL, CDRS
Learning Level: Intermediate | Contact Hours: 2 hours

Our research has found that autistic adolescents obtain driver’s licenses at lower rates compared to their neurotypical counterparts, however both populations have similar crash rates. In this session, researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an OTD/CDRS will provide an overview of the research on driving and community mobility with autistic youth. The review of research will highlight recent and ongoing studies 1) using validated measures to screen autistic adolescents who may be ready to pursue driving from those that are not ready, 2) developing an innovative, AI-powered interactive web platform “Empowering Transport among Autistic Adolescents” that delivers comprehensive, accessible, evidence-based support for families and professionals guiding autistic adolescents toward safe, independent mobility, and 3) refining an on-line readiness-to-drive checklist that provides feedback for skill development. The presenters will illustrate the studies’ findings using case-based examples so participants can reflect on the applicability to their practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize current research and best-practices to improve driving potential for autistic youth and young adults.
• Identify assessment tools to inform their clinical reasoning for identifying potential to drive.
• Apply evidence-based tools to assist them in  potential-to-drive assessments and effective interventions to promote successful driving and community mobility.

Seminar 3 | Product Demonstrations in the Expo 
Learning Level: All | Contact Hours: 3 hours*
*attendance at the entire session is required to earn contact hours

Presented by Gold and Ruby Conference Sponsors

Adapt Solutions | BraunAbility | EMC | Harmar | Mobility Innovations | Q'Straint | Stellantis | Sure Grip | Vantage Mobility 

This seminar, held in the exhibit hall highlights innovative products and technologies designed to support driver rehabilitation practice. Presenters will showcase adaptive equipment, vehicle modifications, assessment tools, and service delivery solutions that enhance safety, independence, and clinical effectiveness. Attendees will gain practical knowledge of product applications, implementation considerations, and strategies for integrating new solutions into driver rehabilitation programs. The presenters will be representatives from the manufacturers of these products featuring our Diamond and Ruby Level Sponsors.

Learning Objectives:

• Develop skills in operating the products presented.
• Identify key features and intended clinical applications of selected driver rehabilitation products and technologies.
• Compare product options based on client presentation, safety considerations, and practice setting variables. 
• Analyze implementation considerations including training requirements, funding pathways, regulatory factors, and workflow integration.

Seminar 4 |Innovative Training Methods: Using Driving Simulators for Diverse Driver
Keegan Humphrey, OTR/L, CDRS, CLVT, CBIS, CSRS, CDI, DPAM
Learning Level: Introductory | Contact Hours: 1 hour

Teaching someone how to drive is among the most challenging tasks in the current market. Whether conducted in a hospital or a driving school, driver education and rehabilitation are often regarded as demanding due to the limited resources available for working with drivers. This presentation explores the role of driving simulators as an adjunct to traditional behind-the-wheel training. Attendees will gain insight into how simulators can benefit a diverse range of clients, including those with orthopedic or neurological conditions, as well as novice and experienced drivers. Participants will examine how simulators can enhance clients’ cognitive skills within dynamic environments. Additionally, the presentation will discuss how simulators can be employed to train clients who require various types of adaptive equipment. Finally, attendees will evaluate the advantages and limitations of different driving simulators currently available on the market.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze the efficacy of simulator-based driver training for diverse populations.
• Critically evaluate the advantages and limitations of various driving simulator products available on the market.
• Formulate and implement instructional strategies that address driving performance deficits by incorporating adaptive and low-technology solutions to enhance occupational performance.

Seminar 5 | Exhibitor Roundtables
Learning Level: Introductory | Contact Hours: 1.5 hours

Attendees will engage directly with representatives from leading companies in the industry. Each table is hosted by a company representative who will lead a conversation centered on their products/services. Conversations will last 15 minutes before attendees rotate to a new table. The conversations are designed to shed light on the latest innovations in products/services for driver rehabilitation, providing comprehensive insights into client application. This interactive format fosters an open and dynamic dialogue, encouraging participants to ask questions and gain a well-rounded understanding of current technologies and practical applications

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze various products/services in the driver rehabilitation field and how to implement them into client care.
• Identify clients that would benefit from currently available products.

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