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Will he EVER pass the driver's test (sigh)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 376038" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>L is about five months older than difficult child 3. Every kid is different, even the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids.</p><p></p><p>In Australia, kids can get their Learner's Permit once they're 16 but cannot go for their licence until they're 17. They have to have all their driving hours logged and meet certain standards, including having driven over 120 hours with a supervising driver, before they go for the licence. ANd then the license they get is Provisional (passing through several grades) for the next three years.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 has a lot of difficulty multi-tasking. He made a conscious choice, when all his classmates were getting their L's, to NOT learn to drive. At that time he felt he probably never would drive. Then soon after he turned 21, he decided to have a go. He learned well, had a few problems but got his licence and then bought himself a car. He had that car for over a year before he wrote it off driving through a red light (really bad weather, a lot of distraction). Luckily nobody was hurt. He got back behind the wheel and has not had another accident since.</p><p></p><p>easy child got her L's as soon as she turned 16. difficult child 3 was about 5 years old at the time and hyperlexic. He got his hands on the Lerner Driver's handbook and memorised it (he'd already memorised the First Aid handbook from all the courses family members have had to take). </p><p>Then recently, difficult child 3 has been playing Grand Theft Auto. You wouldn't think that would be good preparation for learning to drive, but with the driving wheel he bought as well, he's got really good with a lot of the timing, the skills etc of just moving a vehicle around. Plus his recall of the road rules from the handbook - of all the kids of ours, difficult child 3 seems to be learning the fastest.</p><p></p><p>Problems we still have with him - he gets flustered easily, anxious easily and you just can't 'lose it' on the highway in peak hour. But he's actually managing. We gave him the first 10 hours in our village back roads, and that helped.Then the next ten hours were driving on the freeway between cities - easy.</p><p></p><p>The thing is - difficult child 3 can multi-task. difficult child 1 is not good at that. But once he is more familiar with what he has to do, to the point of it becoming automatic, he can do OK.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 chose to wait and for him it was a wise decision. easy child 2/difficult child 2 also chose to wait a couple more years, but not quite so long. She got her Ls when she was 18. Her problems are a bit of recklessness and she also can get flustered and anxious. But being able to multitask has been important.</p><p></p><p>There is a Simpson's version of Grand Theft Auto which helped difficult child 3 a lot, too. I know it seems a crazy thing to suggest, for letting a prospective learner driver play, but I really think it helped the boys have practice in the sort of reflex work and multi-tasking you have to have on automatic, when you learn to drive for real.</p><p></p><p>We let difficult child 1 choose when to have a go at driving. I like to think that in doing so, we made the world a safer place for just that little bit longer...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 376038, member: 1991"] L is about five months older than difficult child 3. Every kid is different, even the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids. In Australia, kids can get their Learner's Permit once they're 16 but cannot go for their licence until they're 17. They have to have all their driving hours logged and meet certain standards, including having driven over 120 hours with a supervising driver, before they go for the licence. ANd then the license they get is Provisional (passing through several grades) for the next three years. difficult child 1 has a lot of difficulty multi-tasking. He made a conscious choice, when all his classmates were getting their L's, to NOT learn to drive. At that time he felt he probably never would drive. Then soon after he turned 21, he decided to have a go. He learned well, had a few problems but got his licence and then bought himself a car. He had that car for over a year before he wrote it off driving through a red light (really bad weather, a lot of distraction). Luckily nobody was hurt. He got back behind the wheel and has not had another accident since. easy child got her L's as soon as she turned 16. difficult child 3 was about 5 years old at the time and hyperlexic. He got his hands on the Lerner Driver's handbook and memorised it (he'd already memorised the First Aid handbook from all the courses family members have had to take). Then recently, difficult child 3 has been playing Grand Theft Auto. You wouldn't think that would be good preparation for learning to drive, but with the driving wheel he bought as well, he's got really good with a lot of the timing, the skills etc of just moving a vehicle around. Plus his recall of the road rules from the handbook - of all the kids of ours, difficult child 3 seems to be learning the fastest. Problems we still have with him - he gets flustered easily, anxious easily and you just can't 'lose it' on the highway in peak hour. But he's actually managing. We gave him the first 10 hours in our village back roads, and that helped.Then the next ten hours were driving on the freeway between cities - easy. The thing is - difficult child 3 can multi-task. difficult child 1 is not good at that. But once he is more familiar with what he has to do, to the point of it becoming automatic, he can do OK. difficult child 1 chose to wait and for him it was a wise decision. easy child 2/difficult child 2 also chose to wait a couple more years, but not quite so long. She got her Ls when she was 18. Her problems are a bit of recklessness and she also can get flustered and anxious. But being able to multitask has been important. There is a Simpson's version of Grand Theft Auto which helped difficult child 3 a lot, too. I know it seems a crazy thing to suggest, for letting a prospective learner driver play, but I really think it helped the boys have practice in the sort of reflex work and multi-tasking you have to have on automatic, when you learn to drive for real. We let difficult child 1 choose when to have a go at driving. I like to think that in doing so, we made the world a safer place for just that little bit longer... Marg [/QUOTE]
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