(1 hr./ 0.1 CEU/CCU)

AOTA Category:  OT Service Delivery, Foundational Knowledge

• CEUs/Contact Hours:  0.1 AOTA CEUs/1 Contact Hour
• Educational Level: Introductory

General Overview:

This one-hour interactive course is intended to help clinicians and providers expand their current knowledge to improve clinical outcomes with power wheelchair provision. This course will review strategies for customizing a power wheelchair system to their clients’ medical and functional needs. Participants will gain an understanding of how programming, the use of PSFs, base configuration, posture, and power wheelchair skill acquisition contribute to safe and functional power mobility. Research supported clinical application, case examples and open discussion will examine the role of the power wheelchair provision process. Highlighted within the course will be the importance of individualized goals and assessments.

Upon completion, participants will have a better understanding and ability to apply power wheelchair driving considerations, practical uses of power seat functions, seating and programming considerations to the every-day functioning of their clients.

CEU Objectives: 

By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Describe performance differences between MWD and FWD power base configurations as it relates to maneuverability and power wheelchair skills training.
2. Identify 3 ways PSFs provide positioning for functional tasks and environmental access.
3. Discuss 2 research studies examining the relationship between posture and drive control access.
4. Identify 2 programming parameters that can be adjusted to customize the PWC to the person to promote function and safety.

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Full Course Detail Flyer PDF:  Clinical Implications Power Mobility