Drive Smart Driving School Adelaide

16/10/2025

DAL Expo - Ready To Go. The power of collaboration. Total Ability and Drive Smart Driving School helping more people Love To Drive!

16/10/2025

Bump In with Total Ability team for Disability, Aging & Lifestyle Expo. Come and say Hi. Tomorrow and Saturday.
Adelaide Main Page – DAL Expo

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10/09/2025

Team Drive Smart heading regional today. Hand Control consult and trial then lessons in Port Pirie. We're still "country kids" at heart 😀

19/08/2025

Drive from wheelchair using Joystick Control and Traffic Observation Camera System. All ready for OT Assessment with next client :-)

19/08/2025

Getting creative with double sided tape and the Total Ability High Level Training & Assessment Vehicle in Tasmania. This creation will put client Lucas in full control of Indicators, Wipers etc plus allow him to switch his Traffic Observation Camera viewing angles.

21/06/2025

Another Amazing week supporting Driving OT Intensive Week..... https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BmD9CagHN/

Massive week this week for our OT Driving intensive at Flinders University! This is the week when we consolidate 12 weeks of online content into 1 week of demonstration, practice and then see actual clients for assessment. It’s intense learning but the OTs all did so well and we achieved some great outcomes with our clients. Feeling all the feels and like a proud Mum in a way!

It’s also a lot of coordination with something like 14 OTs, 14 clients, 6 supervising OTs, 7 driving instructors, 4 modifiers and 1 extremely tired lecturer/coordinator!

Super grateful to best people I know that help make this happen and contribute so much value including Lloyd Townsend, Natalya Meiring, Alison Dermody, Mark Fraser from Drive Smart Driving School Adelaide, Brad Williams from Williams Occupational Therapy, Stacey George and others including Nicki Hayball, Caitlin Ahmad, Bryan Renfors from Force Driving School, Rob Garard, Stephen Palmer from Team Driver Training and Sonia Guliani. I appreciate each and everyone of you for your time and support personally and professionally. And a shout out to Total Ability for some resources to support our vehicle mods teaching along Daniel Wallace from Willshire Mobility and Mardi Badcock from Brazier Mobility.

PS. As an aside, in true nerd fashion I came up with a new/revised model of outcomes of OT Driver Assessment 😂 Look out for this in an upcoming conference paper or poster in the fiture 😂

08/05/2025

Lunch break in Hallett Cove on way to help a client develop steering techniques to reduce pain associated with driving. Now in the Drive Smart Corolla (thanks to Jenny Fraser driving half way across Adelaide to swap cars - couldn't help so many people without the queen of "make it happen" logistics Jenny).

08/05/2025

Out and about today in the estara Camry helping another driver overcome anxiety as the discovery a new way of driving with Hand Contols. Changing the world one small breakthrough at a time. Love what we get to do.

29/04/2025

More about the Slow Down for Yellow Rule...
https://daily.raa.com.au/media-resources/slow-down-for-yellow-it-could-save-a-life/

29/04/2025

New 25kph Rules Start 19th May 2025
https://www.mylicence.sa.gov.au/road-rules/road-rules-amendments?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ9edZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqF-HT2JHiKF2P6Swp6U_OW0HMjdo3RdiqKkJP5WbWhKJNNyzKaRDvKvCxbA_aem_u1i63bza59nq3td3msYsLw

From Monday 19 May 2025, drivers must slow down to 25 km/h when passing a stationary breakdown service vehicle with flashing amber lights.

28/03/2025

Some great advice from Total Ability

The guidelines you need to know if you drive with disabilities and would like to modify an older car with funding help from the NDIS.

06/12/2024

The Drive Smart team had the pleasure of working with Total Ability High Level Instructor Rob and Driving OT Tayla (Tasmania) at Baskerville Raceway today.
Four first time Joystick drivers on their way to becoming great drivers.