Steering Your Client Toward Independence Adapted Driver Education for Persons with Disabilities:
Addressing the Issues from Adolescents to Seniors
POSTPONED - Date to be Determined
Topics Include
Steps to Identifying, Assessing & Teaching Adapted Driver Education
Update on Vehicle Design and Factory Equipment Options
Role of the Department of Motor Vehicles in Obtaining, Reacquiring and/or Maintaining a License Post Disability
To Drive or Not to Drive:
Safety Issues for Adolescents, Seniors and Those In-Between
A Growing Concern—Evaluating and Counseling Our Older Population to Navigate Life Transitions
About the Conference
For the past thirty six years at Abilities Inc., our Adapted Driver Training Program has been one of our landmark programs.
During that time, we have evaluated and trained over 5,000 people with many varied
disabilities to drive, gain/regain
independence utilizing adapted and
traditional vehicles. This program has
served as a model for others throughout our
country, and has been replicated at other
locations nationwide.
Abilities, Inc. will be hosting its first ever
Regional Symposium on Driver Training on Thursday, November 3, 2011, to be held on the Abilities campus in Albertson, Long
Island. The conference will host physical and occupational therapy professionals,
manufacturers of technology and
adaptations, makers of prosthetics and
orthotics, car dealerships, auto insurance company representatives, driving school
personnel, representatives from
rehabilitation centers and hospitals dealing with adapted driver training, and adapted driver instructors from specialized
rehabilitation programs.
Individuals who benefit from driver
training programs can live more
independent lives. Vocational, social and recreational opportunities may be available through new mobility options
Speakers Include
Ed Colverd
Abilities, Inc.
Dorene Devins
North Shore Long Island Jewish Geriatric
Dr. Richard Marottoli, MD
Yale New Haven Hospital
Mary Beth Meyer
Driver Rehabilitation of the
Hudson Valley
Mary Carolan Murphy
Abilities, Inc.
Beth Rolland
Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation
Donna Stressel
Sunnyview Hospital & Rehabilitation Center
Barbara Vogel
North Shore Long Island Jewish Geriatric
Dr. Giselle Wolf-Klein
North Shore Long Island Jewish Geriatric
