Wheelchair Power Mobility: Mobility Training

Course overview

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.