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Driving instructors

Beeman

Hello.

I'm trying to find driving instructors in the Hertfordshire/ Cambridge / Essex borders who have experience of teaching pupils with ASD and I'm struggling. My 18 year old son was learning with an instructor who was aware of his condition and who seemed keen to teach him, but after a year the instructor asked to stop as he didn't feel my son was making progress.

I've contacted Julia Malkin but no ADIs from her scheme close to us it seems.

Please can anybody give me some specific names of instructors  or hints where else I might look?

Thank you in anticipation 

Beeman

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    Coogybear said:

     If your son is having difficulties, it's way more likely to be the tutor, not the child that is at fault.

    Children aren't allowed to drive! i don't think it's fair to presume that the instructor is at fault. I know that i make loads of mistakes and that stuff can be my fault. But seriously, i think that there can be a tendency in aspies not to listen and not to internalise what a teacher may be saying. I'm with Pandoren, perhaps the son isn't ready for this yet, perhaps it may be better to wait awhile? I took a long time (over 30 lessons and several attempts at the test) and struggled with various bits and, in hindsight, there's a lot going on when you are driving which makes real driving very different to the theory and rules bit that you can learn from a book.

    i have, however, always cycled and think that this can help with road sense and positioning on the road and so on. Does the son cycle, does he have an appreciation for what's going on? Also, has beeman been driven by son? What does he think of his son's driving and attitude to the whole thing?

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    Coogybear said:

     If your son is having difficulties, it's way more likely to be the tutor, not the child that is at fault.

    Children aren't allowed to drive! i don't think it's fair to presume that the instructor is at fault. I know that i make loads of mistakes and that stuff can be my fault. But seriously, i think that there can be a tendency in aspies not to listen and not to internalise what a teacher may be saying. I'm with Pandoren, perhaps the son isn't ready for this yet, perhaps it may be better to wait awhile? I took a long time (over 30 lessons and several attempts at the test) and struggled with various bits and, in hindsight, there's a lot going on when you are driving which makes real driving very different to the theory and rules bit that you can learn from a book.

    i have, however, always cycled and think that this can help with road sense and positioning on the road and so on. Does the son cycle, does he have an appreciation for what's going on? Also, has beeman been driven by son? What does he think of his son's driving and attitude to the whole thing?

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