Ontario Chapter Meeting  April 26, 2025
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM ET | Live, In-Person
Holiday Inn & Suites Oakville @ Bronte 2525 Wyecroft, Oakville, ON L6L 6P8

6 ADED Contact Hours | Members $53 USD / Non-Members $106 USD
ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED - REGISTRATION CLOSES WHEN SOLD OUT or April 1, 2025 11:59 PM ET
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Schedule (subject to change)
8:30 – 9:00          Arrival, mix & mingle (breakfast on your own)
9:00 – 9:15          Business meeting
9:15 – 9:25          Sponsor Address
9:25 – 11:25        Dr. Lazar Presentation
11:25-11:35        Break
11:35-11:45        Sponsor Address
11:45-11:55        Sponsor Address
11:55-12:40        Lunch break
12:40-2:40          Dr. Lazar Presentation 
2:40 - 2:50          Nutritional Break
2:50 - 4:50          Toni Taylor and Wendy Nieuwland OT Presentation 
4:50-5:00            Wrap-up & Adjournment

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Application for Vehicular Anxiety Presenter Dr. Lazar

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a highly effective and proven psychological treatment to reduce anxiety and depression. The main tenet of CBT is that thoughts and behaviours impact the way we feel. In CBT, you learn strategies to identify thoughts and beliefs, as well as to modify them. You also learn behavioural strategies to help reduce and eliminate anxiety, depression and worry. Research suggests that our thoughts, emotions and behaviours are interrelated, so that if you change one, you can change the other two. Awareness of CBT theories and practices, will enable you to learn tools to tackle feelings of anxiety. Specific applications to driving anxiety will be discussed and illustrated.

Learning objectives for presentation:
· Understanding the CBT model and conceptualization
· Develop Cognitive Strategies for anxiety
· Develop Behavioural Strategies for anxiety
· Learning to apply these strategies to driving anxiety

Presenter Bio: Dr. Lazar completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Western University in 2011. He has worked in numerous inpatient and outpatient clinics, providing CBT for patients suffering from mood and anxiety disorders, as well as psychosis. He began work in private practice in 2011, and co-founded The Downtown Psychology Clinic in 2019, which has emphasized using evidence-based treatment such as CBT, when treating patients. Throughout his career, he has been actively involved in teaching and training endeavors. He has been involved in teaching the PGY-2 CBT seminar in the Department of Psychiatry since 2017. He has also presented workshops for the Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health and is currently the instructor for their CBT Level 2 program. He is also an instructor at OISE at the University of Toronto from since 2004. In that role, he taught and developed multiple courses, including CBT Fundamentals, CBT for Anxiety and CBT for Complex Disorders. He has also presented at national and international conferences on topics related to CBT for anxiety and psychosis. 

Using CBT to address Vehicular Anxiety – Experiences and Barriers Presenters: Toni-Marie Taylor & Wendy Nieuwland

Experiencing driving anxiety after a motor vehicle accident or other trauma that leads to feeling anxious while driving is something that our driver rehab programs are uniquely positioned to help clients with their recovery. As Occupational Therapists and licensed driving instructor who have received specialized training and supervised by the driver rehab OT, we can provide goal based driver rehab services. During this workshop you will learn about the approach, risks, benefits and how helping clients to improve their function will assist with lessening their in car driving anxiety symptoms. Through a didactic lecture on assessment and training techniques followed by a simulated in vehicle demonstration, participants will learn and develop more skill based training to use when working with clients with driving anxiety. 

Learning objectives for presentation: 
• By observing a simulated in-vehicle driver rehab session, participants will learn ideas for use with clients who are experiencing driving anxiety
• After observation of the simulated in-vehicle driver rehab session, participants will discuss approaches, understand risks, benefits and pitfalls. 
• Understand the pitfalls when working with some third-party payers who do not understand the role of the OT and driving instructor in the driver rehab recovery process; learn some ideas of working with this. 

Toni-Marie Taylor is a duly qualified and registered Occupational Therapist in good standing with the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario as well as a psychotherapist registered with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. This therapist graduated in 1991 with a B.A in Psychology from the University of Windsor. She went on to graduate from the University of Western Ontario with a B.Sc. in Occupational Therapy in 1994. More recently, she returned to graduate studies, completing her Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology to better assist her clients with driving anxiety.  Ms. Taylor has been working in auto sector since 1995 and in the highly specialized field of driver rehabilitation since 1996.  In 1997, Ms. Taylor became Essex County’s only  therapist certified in Driver Rehabilitation and is currently a member of the Association for Driver Rehabilitation Specialists (ADED), an international organization. She has attended numerous post graduate driver rehabilitation courses including National Driver Rehabilitation Conferences, and ADED courses. She is an active member of the Ontario ADED chapter and attends semi-annual chapter meetings. She has presented at numerous brain injury and rehabilitation conferences on driver rehabilitation and driving anxiety treatment. 

Wendy Nieuwland is an Occupational Therapist who has been actively involved in the highly specialized field of driver rehabilitation for 26 years. She has been fortunate to train in driving at various places throughout the United States including Louisiana Tech University, Florida, Boston, Michigan, Kansas and Texas to further her knowledge of driver assessment and rehabilitation. She achieved her advanced credentialing in 1996 to earn her certified driver rehabilitation specialist designation from the Association of Driver Rehabilitation Specialists (ADED). Not only is Wendy an OT she has also been a licensed driving instructor since 1991 and a licensed classroom driving instructor since 1996. She is an active Ontario ADED chapter member including serving on the Ontario executive on many occasions. She enjoys working with the medical review section of the MTO which is the drivers’ licensing body of Ontario to work on medical driving issues related to assessment and rehabilitation. She was a contributing author and editor to the 7th edition of the Canadian Medical Association’s “Determining Medical Fitness to Operate Motor Vehicles” which is the main resource on driving for physicians in Canada. She sits on various physician committees regarding how to best assess and screen older drivers. She is the co-owner of Skill Builders Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Centre in Barrie. Currently, her practice mostly focuses on brain injury rehabilitation along with driver rehabilitation. Her Centre is recognized by the Ministry of Transportation to conduct medical driving assessments and was one of the first few driver rehab facilities in Ontario chosen to perform the functional vision waiver assessments for drivers of all ages who do not meet the horizontal vision requirements in 2005. She then conducted the 5 year review of the Vision Waiver Program and updated its protocol in 2010 and provided training at the MTO and other functional assessment centres. She acts a mentor and expert contact for colleagues across the province as well as to the MTO and physicians on the topic of driving. She is the liason to the Ministry of Transportation and all functional assessment centres. She worked closely with the MTO, the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario and the Ontario Association of Occupational Therapists regarding the development of the new MTO reporting form. She speaks often at conferences and enjoys sharing knowledge with those in this wonderful yet challenging career of driver rehabilitation.

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Attendance at the entire event is required to earn contact hours, no partial hours are awarded. Registration confirmation and payment receipts are e-mailed to the attendee. All cancellations must be made in writing to the ADED Executive Office by April 1, 2025 11:59 PM ET; a 20% handling fee will be charged. Refunds will not be issued after this date or for “no-shows.” Partial refunds will not be granted. ADED reserves the right to modify content, timetable, change speakers, or cancel events due to unforeseen/unavoidable circumstances at any time. If ADED cancels an event, a full refund will be provided to registrants. All complaints relative to the content, instructor, and registration procedures are to be directed to the ADED executive office: 200 1st Ave NW #505 Hickory NC 28601 or via email eLearning@aded.net

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