The Neurodiverse Driver Training Series (4 Ebooks)

The Neurodiverse Driver Training Series
A practical four-book series for driving instructors who want to understand the learner, adapt their teaching and develop safe, confident and independent drivers.
The Neurodiverse Driver Training Series by Simon Harrison brings together practical guidance for ADIs, PDIs and instructor trainers working with autistic learners, learners with ADHD and those with a range of learning differences and additional needs.
Rather than offering a set of rigid techniques or assuming that every learner with the same diagnosis will learn in the same way, the series takes an individual, client-centred approach.
Across four complementary volumes, the series explores the complete learning-to-drive journey — from understanding neurodiversity and recognising potential barriers, through communication and lesson planning, to test preparation and independent driving.
The series includes:
Book 1 – Understanding Autism in Driver Training
Explores autism in the context of learning to drive, including communication, sensory differences, processing, anxiety, predictability and understanding the individual learner.
Book 2 – Understanding ADHD & Learning Differences in Driver Training
Examines ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and other learning differences, with particular attention to attention regulation, working memory, executive functioning, processing and performance variability.
Book 3 – Teaching Neurodiverse Learners to Drive
Turns understanding into practical teaching, covering communication, lesson planning, cognitive load, scaffolding, prompting, adapting instruction and gradually developing learner independence.
Book 4 – Supporting Neurodiverse Learners to Test & Independent Driving
Follows the learner through theory and hazard perception, test preparation, progress difficulties and the transition to independent driving, supported by practical tools and reflective resources for instructors.
Written by Simon Harrison, ADI, BA (Hons), PGCE, the series combines experience from education and driver training with a practical understanding of neurodiversity.
The aim is not to lower expectations or create a different driving standard for neurodiverse learners. It is to help instructors recognise what may be creating a barrier to learning and how their teaching can respond.
At the heart of all four books is one simple approach:
Understand the individual.
Identify the barrier.
Adapt the teaching.
Maintain the safety standard.
Build independence.
Whether read individually or as a complete collection, The Neurodiverse Driver Training Series is designed to support more inclusive, reflective and effective driver education.
 
These books and the series are available to buy as paperback on Amazon