OT Specialized Services For All The Ways We Drive.

Explore the journey of driving confidence. Discover how we can help you pave the way towards independence. Unleash your unique potential on the road.

Your journey matters; let’s make it extraordinary!

New Drivers

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  • Impulsivity

  • Slowed Processing

  • Decision-Making

  • Distractibility

  • Autism

  • ADHD/ADD

  • Anxiety and Fear

  • Special Learning Needs

New drivers sometimes need a little more individualized support and an instructor who better understands their unique strengths and challenges.

Adaptive Driving

OT 4 Driveways can provide assessments and get you adaptive driving equipment so that you can overcome all sorts of obstacles that would keep you from driving. This lady has an adult booster seat and hand controls, so she can drive her car.
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  • Muscle Weakness (Stroke, MS..)

  • Spina Bifida

  • Shortened Stature

  • Visual Impairments

  • Cerebral Palsy

  • Amputation

  • Spinal/Brain Injury

  • Neuropathy

Physical limitations, whether congenital or acquired, can require specialized vehicle adaptations to remove the barriers to independent driving. Adaptive equipment is also available for vision challenges.

Acute Illness & Injury

A male patient with a walker is leaving he hospital after an accident. OT 4 Driveways can help you get back to your regular life of driving, after catastrophic injury or illness. OT 4 Driveways can provide the needed driving assessments to get back
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  • Stroke or Heart Attack

  • Spinal/Brain Injury

  • Long COVID/”Brain Fog”

  • PTSD

  • Newly acquired visual impairment

  • Lengthy hospital/rehab stay

  • Amputation

  • Neuropathy

Safety and liability concerns can make it challenging to determine readiness to return to driving and/or adaptive equipment needs following an acute injury or illness.

Progressive Diagnosis

An elderly woman with white hair, wearing pink sunglasses. As our parents get older and suffer from cognitive decline, OT 4 Driveways can provide certified assessments to ensure they are still safe drivers.
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A comprehensive driving evaluation is recommended following the identification of any progressive diagnosis that will likely impact driving skills. We will gather a baseline measurement of your present driving skills and make a plan to reduce your risks while working to maintain your driving freedom as long as possible.

Outcomes may include training for increased defensive driving practices, identification of routes/times of day that decrease risk, speed limits that better match your speed of processing/reactions, discussing and trialing adaptive equipment that may support improved vehicle control, and recommendations and resources for planning and deciding when it’s time for driving retirement.

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, or Alzheimer’s.

  • Neuro-muscular conditions: Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, MS, MD, ALS, Neuropathy, Etc.

  • Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma, and other vision loss.

Discover your driving potential