Occupational Therapy Driving Assessment
Consist of an Off Road assessment of approximately 90 minutes, On Road of 60 minutes accompanied by a driving instructor in the client's car, report for the GP, NZTA or other referring party.
A screening assessment is available if you are unsure if you want to proceed with the full assessment.
Enable funding for vehicle and/or vehicle modifications
Eligibility Criteria
A person with a permanent disability
Working or studying at tertiary level or fulltime at maximum capacity
Be the main carer of a child under 13
A child under the age of 16
Lottery Grant Applications
Support with applications
Lottery Grants for vehicles require input from an Occupational Therapsit to ensure that the vehcile and modifications meet the Grant Recipients needs.
Children under the age of 16 might be eligible for Enable funding to compliment the Lottery Funding
Occupational therapy/whakaora ngangahau is a registered client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and well-being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy [whakaora ngangahau] is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists [kaiwhakaora ngangahau] achieve this by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or are expected to do; or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational therapy engagement.
World Federation of Occupational Therapy, 2012
Occupational therapy - whakaora ngangahau.
Whakaora means to restore to health and ngangahau is an adjective meaning – active, spirited, zealous. Conveying the idea of reawakening, or restoring to health one’s activeness, spiritedness and zeal
Being and Doing Everyday
I qualified as an Occupational Therapist from the University Of Pretoria in 1993. After working in a variety of settings in South Africa, I immigrated to New Zealand ,with my family, in 2007. I have been working in driving and vehicle modifications since 2012. I hold a Certificate as Driver Assessment and Training Occupational Therapist from the University of Sydney and am credentialed in following areas of Enable accreditation:
