Assessment and Guidance through Multidisciplinary Collaboration for the Resumption of Driving a Motor Vehicle by Persons with Higher Brain Dysfunction

Abstract

  Our driving school provides driving aptitude testing equipment and actual vehicle evaluations for persons with higher brain dysfunction. Based on our analysis of various cases, we believe that the driving aptitude tester is an evaluation that can play an intermediate role between neuropsychological testing and actual vehicle evaluation. Therefore, for persons with higher brain dysfunction, the validity and reliability of the evaluation can be enhanced by analyzing the relationship between neuropsychological testing, driving aptitude testing equipment, and actual vehicle evaluation, and by considering resumption of driving under multidisciplinary collaboration. In addition, in the actual vehicle instruction for persons with higher brain dysfunction who have decades of driving experience and are assumed to have a certain level of knowledge and skills in driving, experience shows that active learning by questioning using the GROW model as an example is effective in reducing psychological reactance and sustaining the effectiveness of the instruction.