Care Motoring

Client Testimonials

 

I passed my test twenty years ago but never did any driving after that point and in the intervening years I developed a phobia of driving. With a young daughter to now care for I realised that I needed to be able to get in the car and drive. I was looking for someone who would not only help me to regain my driving skills but who would also have an empathy and understanding of my driving anxieties. I consider myself extremely lucky to have found Jackie Willis who takes a holistic approach to her driving tuition. Jackie is not only outstanding in the teaching of driving itself she adds another dimension with her ability to feed the mind. Driving is a mental attribute as well as a physical process and Jackie is a positive and perceptive communicator who delivers individualized tuition that is both practical and cognitive. She has developed a portfolio of driving aids that encompasses all types of learner and nervous drivers and she has enabled me to move on from my phobia to actually enjoying being in the driver’s seat! She has taught me to understand not just how to drive my car but also how I think about driving and this essential combination is a skill for life.  Emma Shipton-Smith, Lyng, Norfolk   back to 'dyslexia' page

I was tested at a young age, to find that I have learning difficulties, which are Dyslexia and Dyspraxia. I came across Jackie Willis and Caremotoring through researching for a driving instructor on the internet who specialises in people like myself. Also she is a teacher with experience in this specific area and I wanted to learn in a manual car. Jackie has really supported me throughout driving using multisensory activities, for example listening to her podcasts, watching videos and doing quizzes. She advised that I do a BTEC level 2 in Driving Science. Jackie manages to find ways to get the sequencing of driving in a way that I can remember through demonstrations and pictures.  In our driving lessons at the moment we go over the cockpit drill then various repetitions from previous lessons. Then we set out on the lesson objectives for that day.  My aim is to pass my driving test by the end of this year and pass the BTEC, I feel that with Jackie’s tuition I will do this.  I am thoroughly enjoying each lesson and do not feel nervous with Jackie. 
Amber Johnston, Fakenham, Norfolk    back to 'dyslexia' page

It is with great pleasure and confidence that I hand my 18 year old daughter over to Jackie for driving lessons.  Amber is not a confident girl as she has struggled all her life with issues thrown up by being dyspraxic/ dyslexic. As many people now understand these can often be barriers to successful driving. Amber found Jackie via the internet and asked to do the BTEC. I happily funded this as the course made a great deal of sense in producing true drivers, not just someone who has been taught to pass the test. Using her experience and knowledge as a teacher and her keen interest in producing successful well rounded drivers, Jackie has logically and sensitively taught Amber using holistic approach. Visual, auditory and kinaesthetic repetition are required by my daughter, reinforced by pod casts, etc that Jackie has produced. Amber enjoys her driving in many senses, and as her parent I am reinforcing the feedback that Jackie gives both of us. I know that each level will be moved to at the appropriate time.
Amber's mother.    back to 'dyslexia' page

Having just experienced what could have been a very serious traffic accident with my pregnant wife, I wanted to write to congratulate you on the invaluable success of your audio lesson on ‘Use of Mirrors and Signalling’. It is only as a consequence of having listened to your lesson that I was recently able to minimise a potentially very dangerous accident involving a careless driver, who, having failed to signal their intentions made a dangerous manoeuvre at an interchange roundabout and drove into the side of my car. Clearly, but for your audio lesson I simply would not have seen the driver in my left-hand mirror and the consequences would have been extremely dire indeed. Whilst my last minute check did not allow me to avoid the accident it gave me that added split second to help me significantly minimise the impact and thus the consequences for all involved. For me, your audio lessons have been invaluable in a very real driving situation. In conjunction with my practical lessons your audio aids work to add further and more in-depth clarity on the theory behind the essential techniques for risk management and safer driving. Put simply, since we cannot control the actions and decisions of other drivers we can influence and significantly minimise the risks associated with others bad decisions. It is for this reason I wanted to personally thank you. 
Mr T Filby, Wymondham, Norfolk

After trying to learn to drive for 3 years and having 3 instructors with no success, my mum, a friend of Jackie's suggested that I should ask Jackie to teach me. In the first lesson she picked up on my Dyslexia straight away and tried to work around it even teaching me to walk in a straight line which might sound like a simple thing but it changed the way I drove. She picked up on a number of things and explained everything that was going on with my driving in a way that I understood. After a few hours of lessons my confidence grew and I actually enjoyed driving for the first time! She didn't just give me an hour lesson like most instructors do I got as long as I needed, I also learnt many useful things such as planning routes with maps and also driving with a sat nav. No lesson was ever the same and I was encouraged to plan my own lessons which seemed strange at first but it meant that I would learn and practice things that I thought I needed. My first test with her was my last, I couldn't believe that I had actually passed and now love driving. 
Jessica Smith, Dereham, Norfolk.    back to 'dyslexia' page