Community Mobility and Driving Definitions

Identifying a gray vehicle on a rainy day

This ability pertains to contrast sensitivity.

Accurately reading traffic signs or identifying colors on a traffic light

These skills pertain to color discrimination.

Accurately judging the space when pulling into a parking space

This skill pertains to depth perception.

to simulate the activity of driving, also known as a driving simulator, is the best off-road choice because of its relative validity with on-road outcomes.

An interactive computer-based program

This tool will only provide information on processing speed.

A computer-based information-processing training tool

An off-the-shelf driving-based computer game

No empirical evidence exists to suggest that an off-the-shelf driving-based computer game can assess fitness-to-drive skills.

This test will only provide information on reaction time, not fitness to drive

An interactive computer-based program to simulate the activity of driving

to require more cognitive skills than paratransit, because the rider needs to read and understand a schedule and manage money on the spot.

A fixed-route transit system is considered

a national nonprofit organization that provides resources and advocates for policy related to community mobility for children.

SafeKids Worldwide is

provides training and resources pertaining to transportation for older adults.

The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center

addresses issues related to people age 50 and older.

AARP

is an industry group that provides adapted driving and mobility equipment for travelers with disabilities.

The National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association

pertains to depth perception.

Stereopsis

refers to the way that the eyes are working together on a horizontal plane.

Lateral phorias

pertains to clarity in near and distant vision.

Visual acuity

instrumental activity of daily living, not an occupational performance skill.

According to the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, community mobility is an

is a set of activities that allow access to and support participation in occupation.

Community mobility

may cause the client to stare at a road scene for a longer duration than expected, causing eye strain or fatigue.

Impaired pursuits, saccades, and scanning

This difficulty usually occurs for a client with visual acuity impairments.

Difficulty seeing other road users or objects inside a tunnel

Tendency to drift out of a lane and move too close to other road users or objects

usually occurs with neglect or visual attention deficits.

the ability to visually scan information using central and peripheral vision and to process that information in a timely fashion.

The Useful Field of View assesses

This test measures cognitive processing speed.

Symbol Digit Modalities Test

These tests measure set shifting.

Trail Making Test, Parts A and B

This test measures scanning and selective attention.

Letter cancellation test

Instruct the client in proper visual search patterns and efficient scanning techniques.

This option is a compensatory strategy for a client with ocular motor skill deficits.

This option is a compensatory strategy for a novice client

Educate the client in rules of the road and signs of the road.

assesses the ability to visually identify forms or objects from incomplete presentations.

he Motor-Free Visual Perception Test, Fourth Edition,

This test assesses the client’s ability to coordinate observed visual stimuli with motor responses.

Development Test of Visual Motor Integration

Visual Screening Test

This test assesses a client’s visual functions, such as acuity, peripheral fields, contrast, and phorias (ability of the eyes to work together horizontally or vertically)

Depth Perception Test

This tests assesses the client’s ability to judge distance, such as parking in a parking place.

-a protected environment that allows a client to perform tasks and respond to car handling or maneuvers without other vehicles, traffic control devices, or pedestrians, limiting the exposure of both driver and evaluator to unpredictable driving and confounding behaviors.

-evaluation is the next step in driving evaluation after stationary, in-vehicle assessment and orientation.

A closed course is

occurs in a driving simulator.

Simulator testing

includes a variety of traffic situations that progress in complexity.

A fixed-route course

in any environment in which the client chooses to drive and may include instrumentation such as video cameras or GPS sensors.

Naturalistic, or variable route, driving occurs

Motor skills, cognitive skills, and visual skills

the general performance domains underlying the task of driving.

Concentration, attention, and executive function

cognitive functions underlying driving performance.

framework for crash and injury prevention.

Person, vehicle, and environment

This law includes providing transportation benefits to optimize access to the workplace and assumes that lack of transportation is a major barrier and challenge in sustainable employment.

This option describes the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (Pub. L. 104-93).

This option explains the implications of fixed- and flexible-route trips.

That people who can access fixed-route public transportation may travel more successfully compared with those who do not have such access.

This option is an implication of the 1998 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (Pub. L. 105-178).

That people who can access public transportation in a sustainable fashion, are more likely to be successful in welfare-to-work initiatives.

an inability to effectively search, track, and locate objects in the driving environment.

Deficits in pursuits and saccades may lead to

This strategy is for a client with neglect or a visual attention deficit.

Awareness training

These compensatory strategies are for a client with visual acuity impairments.

-Adapting side mirrors to deflect bright lights from other vehicles

-Using a voice-activated GPS to compensate for way-finding problems

is a cooperative project with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration that promotes universal access to transportation for people with disabilities under federal law and beyond.

Easter Seals Project ACTION

a person has cognitive challenges.

Difficulty merging usually occurs when

An adjustable seat, seat belt, and other controls.

These recommendations are usually made for a client who requires less stress on the joints, for example, a client with arthritis in the upper or lower extremities

Toe Tap Test 

simulates lower extremity mobility for alternately pressing gas and brake pedals with a foot

short-term, direct, and intensive training to teach older adults and people with disabilities to use fixed-route public transportation safely and independently.

Travel training