Wheelchair Skills Program
206 - 1341 Summer Street B3H 4K4 Halifax, NS, Canada

The article, Practices and views of occupational therapists in Nova Scotia regarding wheelchair-skills training for clients and their caregivers: an online survey, published in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, Volume 15 Issue 7, is now available at https://www.tandfonline.com/epri/45VM47IVGMVKTQMFZ5YR/full.

Save the dates! In place of the annual full-day Wheelchair Skills Program Course, due to COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 we will be offering the Course remotely with a focus on two-hand propulsion of manual wheelchairs. Participants will be provided with weekly material to read, video-recordings to watch, questions to consider and skills to practice prior to a weekly live interaction (by Zoom) with the course faculty. The initial live session will be on October 23 from 2:00-3:00 pm Atlantic Time. Details on how to sign up will be posted soon.

The Wheelchair Skills Program YouTube channel provides statistics on channel use. For instance, in the month of August 2020, 1,800 unique viewers looked at 4,625 videos

Amira Tawashy gave a great webinar on August 6, 2020 on how to deal with the challenges of remote learning in a course she gave recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IrCfx2wfVs&feature=youtu.be

A new paper entitled Using remote learning to teach clinicians manual wheelchair skills: a cohort study with pre- vs post-training comparisons is now available.