About Us

Program Objective

Health care professionals with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in the health sciences will be trained to become entry level DRS’s. The program will provide students with a systematic understanding of the relevant knowledge inside and outside their scope of practice and a critical awareness of current problems or new insights, much of which is informed by the evidence and practice regarding driver rehabilitation, as outlined below:

1. Utilize best practices and best evidence to make fitness to drive determinations across a variety of clinical specialties (e.g., neurology, pediatrics, gerontology), and across various settings (e.g., in-patient, outpatient, home health), across the lifespan (e.g., teens to older adults) of at-risk populations.
2. Analyze and conduct research on driver rehabilitation to advance the body of knowledge in a specific area of practice.
3. Assess and intervene with complex client cases and make clinical judgments based on established driver rehabilitation principles, techniques, and evidence.
4. Communicate assessment results, intervention plans, rehabilitation strategies, vehicle adaptations, and client outcomes through a variety of methods (orally, written reports, vehicle modification prescriptions, referrals, regulatory decisions) to clients, families, health care providers and community stakeholders.

Faculty

Sherrilene Classen, PhD, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, FGSA	Program Director
Luther King, DrOT, OTR/L, CDI, CDRS	Instructor for: On-Site Mentoring
Miriam Monahan, OTD, OTR/L, CDRS, CDI	Instructor for: Foundations, Models and Theory Screening, Assessment, Evaluation and Intervention On-Site Skills/Competency Training/Testing
Sergio Romero, PhD	Instructor for: Applied Research Independent Study 1 Independent Study 2
Sandra Winter, PhD, OTR/L	Instructor for: Seminars