The ideal visual-cognitive rehabilitation tool for clinic and home use.
Interactive video training for visual search skills.
As the user watches videos of actual drives, they are challenged to identify and click on the most critical objects. Drive Focus scores the user’s ability to identify, prioritize, and react to actual driving scenarios.
Drive Focus is ideal for clients with:
- Autism
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Cerebral Palsy Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Parkinson's disease
- Age related changes and more
Why use Drive Focus
Drive Focus was developed over the last 20 years and is based on the work of Dr. Miriam Monahan, an Occupational Therapist that specializes in cognition and driving.
Independent university research shows statistically significant reduction in visual scanning errors, errors in reacting to hazards, and total number of driving errors in learner and novice drivers when tested on a driving simulator.
Works on tablets and laptops
You can create an unlimited number of users with the low price of a single Drive Focus app. Things to keep in mind:
You will need to purchase a Drive Focus app for each device you plan to use it on.
- Each client will “Sign-Up” with their email and password. They should have a Smartphone handy for the verification step.
- After the client has used the Drive Focus app, they must log out (found in the settings) before the next client signs-in or signs-up.
For best results
- Clients should use Drive Focus at home
- Therapists should identify problem areas with User Analytics to target their interventions.
How it works
As the user watches videos of actual drives, they are challenged to identify and click on the most critical objects. Drive Focus scores the user’s ability to identify, prioritize, and react to actual driving scenarios.
Drive Focus’ fun game – like environment keeps users engaged.
How to use Drive Focus
App Function Walkthrough
Create an account
First you will need to create an account using your email address and a password of your choice.
You will receive a verification email. If you don’t see it within 3 minutes check your spam or junk folder for an email from [email protected].
Click the orange Verify button in the email.
Go to Drive Focus and Sign In with your email and password. And begin using Drive Focus!
Start with the Training section
Select the Critical Items for the AUS or US
Click on the icon of each of the 11 critical items to learn why and when those items are important to notice.
Select a Tour
There are a lot of Tours to select from within Australia, Canada, and the United States. And we keep adding more.
Each Tour has 6-7 Drives. Download a Drive and click on the 11 critical items in order of priority. Each Drive in a Tour gets progressively more challenging. When you get a score of 500 or higher the next Drive will open.
Play the Drives at different speeds. 100% is the speed that the Drive was taken when filmed. But you can also reduce the speed to 80% or 60%.
In the settings you can add the critical item marking to know when the next item is about to appear.
Your score will be reduced if you use the reduce speed and the critical item marking. But it can help to practice with these features.
Review the score
Whether you get a score below or above 500, review the score details to see what critical items you missed. The score details description will tell you the exact item you missed. You will be able to click a link to play back a 3 second clip where the item occurred.
A score of 650-799 or more is a GOOD score. A score of 800 or higher is AMAZING!
We highly recommend shooting for AMAZING. We know you have it in you!!
How to get the most out of Drive Focus
Realistic Driving Experiences
Explore interesting destinations and driving environments while improving your road awareness.
Adjustable Video Speed
Adjust the pace of each drive to suit your individual learning needs.
Detailed Feedback
In depth feedback improves your road awareness
Instructional Aid
Enable remote viewing of student and client performance, facilitating customized and personalized feedback.
Explore new places with Drive Focus.
Drive Focus User Analytics
- Your client gives you permission to access their Drive Focus data
- Log on on to your web browser to see their scores
- Use Drive Focus User Analytics to analyze results and create reports
- Helps you target your intervention to your client or patient
Drive Focus User Analytics is currently provided at no cost. Click on the link below to get started.
What Therapists Say
About Drive Focus
The Driving Focus app is a dynamic therapeutic activity that can be incorporated into Occupational Therapy plans to address visual attention, visual scanning, information processing skills, reaction time, visual analysis, visual memory, mental tracking, visual motion sensitivity, and more.
I work primarily with clients post-TBI, and this media is awesome for many of them. The training modules are beautifully developed to develop a client’s sensitivity to ‘seeing’ specific items (stop signs, yield signs, pedestrians, etc.) short, interactive training videos measure a client’s accuracy and speed on identifying specific items. It provides quantitative outcomes and colorful visual scales that motivate a client to want to improve; with instruction and effort, a client can easily see improvement even in the first session.
Even for clients who may be a long way from actually driving, this media challenges visual and cognitive skills using a meaningful context. It is a therapeutic activity that occupational therapy practitioners working in rehab should definitely explore; I expect clinicians working in neurorehab will be delighted to add this dynamic media to their arsenal of therapeutic activities.
Mary Jo McGuire
MS, OTR/L, OTPP, FAOTA
Executive Director, Rehab Educators LLC
