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ATGR-20102

This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Power Wheelchair!

This course will present cutting edge design features of rehab power wheelchairs. Many consumers use standard power wheelchairs for mobility and have minimal positioning and access needs. However, many consumers require more sophisticated technologies in order to be independently mobile with good efficiency. New design features provide control of positioning and function through power seating, other features of the power wheelchair including speed and mode of operation, other assistive technology through the power wheelchair access method (such as a speech generating device) and even devices in the home and the computer mouse! Does this sound too hard for clinicians? This course will simplify and provide clinical indicators for design features so that clinicians can participate in product selection and justify those recommendations.


Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn 3 clinical indicators for tracking technologies.
2. Participants will be able to list 3 new power wheelchair access methods.
3. Participants will learn 3 clinical indicators for new power seating programming.
4. Participants will be able to list devices in the home environment that can be controlled through a power wheelchair.

Level of Instruction - Intermediate

Timeline:
7:30 - 8:00 Sign in

8:00 – 8:15 Introduction

8:15 – 9:00 Cutting Edge design features: frame and drive

           Drive wheel configuration
           Tracking technologies
           Suspension

9:00 – 9:45 Cutting Edge design features: access
           New access methods and programming specifics
           Feature navigation through the access method

9:45 – 10:00 Break

10:00 – 11:00 Hands-on time
	      Participants will go to 1-4 stations to see and
              try new alternative access methods and feature navigation

11:00 – 12:00 Cutting Edge design features: power seating 
            Power seating functions
            Programming options

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 1:30 Hands-on time 
            Participants will go to one station to review power seating functions there

1:30 – 2:00 Cutting Edge design features: interfacing 
            How to access other assistive technology through the drive method

2:00 – 2:30 Cutting Edge design features: built-in features 
            Control of devices in the home environment (infrared transmission)
            Mouse emulation

2:30 – 3:30 Hands-on time 
            Participants will go to 2 stations, one on IR transmission and
            one on mouse emulation

3:30 – 4:00 Questions and conclusion
7 contact hours - $75.00


Where:
June 2
Sheraton Denver West
360 Union Boulevard
Lakewood, CO 80228

April 7
Piccadilly Inn
2305 W. Shaw Ave.
Fresno, CA 93711


“Presented by Michelle L. Lange, OTR, ABDA, ATP
Access to Independence”











COURSE

Lois Brown, MPT, ATP
ATGR-20101
Advanced Seating Principles and Manual Wheelchair Selecton for Function.

Michelle L. Lange, OTR, ABDA, ATP
ATGR-20102
This is not your Grandma’s power wheelchair!

Claudia Amortegui, MBA
ATGR-20103
Navigating Your Way Through the Maze of Documentation.

PRESENTERS

John “Jay” Doherty, OTR, ATP
ATGR-20104
Clinical Considerations for Individuals with Progressive Neurological Disorders.

Sharon Pratt, PT
ATGR-20105
Seating and Mobility for Function.