Wheelchair Power Mobility: Mobility Training
Presented by Michelle L. Lange
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Did you know that the average teenager spends 40 to 50 hours training before getting a driver’s license? Most people receiving a power wheelchair have very little, if any, mobility training to optimize their driving skills. And yet these drivers have motor, cognitive, and/or sensory impairments that make training even more important. Once a client has received a power wheelchair, mobility training is provided to further develop skills and optimize functional driving. This course will present mobility training strategies to optimize power wheelchair use. Clinicians need to be familiar with power wheelchair mobility training to optimize driving. This is a pediatric-focused course.
Meet your instructor
Michelle L. Lange
Michelle is an occupational therapist with 35 years of experience and has been in private practice, Access to Independence, for over 15 years. She is a well-respected lecturer, both nationally and internationally, and has authored numerous texts, chapters, and articles. She is the coeditor of Seating and Wheeled Mobility:…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Mobility Training Evidence
This chapter will present evidence on the quantity and quality of mobility training. Research demonstrates that even children with significant and multiple impairments may be successful with power mobility, given mobility training.
2. Training Mobility Concepts: Stop and Go and Directional
This chapter will present mobility training strategies to optimize stop-and-go and directional skills in driving a new power wheelchair. Goals of mobility training will also be discussed.
3. Training Mobility Concepts: Problem-Solving and Judgment
This chapter will present mobility training strategies to optimize problem-solving skills and judgment in driving a new power wheelchair. Many children have not had life experiences that aid in development of judgment, and further training may be required.
4. Addressing Behavioral Issues
This chapter will present common behavioral issues seen in pediatric power wheelchair drivers. Turning behavioral issues into learning opportunities will be discussed, as will general safety issues.
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