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Paper Title:
Learners Licence Training
Project - Learning the Road Rules when you have low literacy skills,
non English speaking background or other learning difficulties.
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Authors:
Mal McIlwraith
Abstract:
The project started early
in 1996 when Road Safety Section were asked to assist the Cherbourg
community members who were unable to pass the written learners licence
test. These people were failing because they did not have adequate
literacy skills to learn the materials (in available text format)
or pass the written test. The experience we gained through running
training sessions and testing for these clients was used to develop
the community driven training processes and activity based resources
discussed in this paper.
As the user friendliness
of the resources (see section 5.1, 5.4) improved it became easier
to share the concept and resources with interested agencies. We
tested the prototype resources with these agencies in line with
their specific needs and the response was a flood of great ideas:
A poster turned into multiple discussion cards; Cards were colour
coded into families; text was simplified and in many cases replaced
with pictures or diagrams.
Late in 2000 we had the
three activities ready to trial with a wider audience. Queensland
Transport’s Community Programs and Information Branch came
on board as partners and are undertaking a state wide trial of the
resources. To guide the further development of the project we formed
a reference group which included staff from, special education units,
youth justice programs, a correctional centre, youth employment
agencies and neighbourhood centres.
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