Online Continuing Education Courses

Technologies that Enable Mobility

• Identity the activity, human, and contextual influences on the use of wheeled mobility
• Describe the assessment of the consumer for a mobility system
• Describe the two primary structures of wheelchairs
• Identify the major characteristics of manual wheelchairs
• Describe the classifications of powered mobility systems and their characteristics
• Understand the influence of the relationship between the center of gravity of the user and the center of mass of the wheelchair on the function of the wheelchair
• Describe the key elements of implementation and training for the use of wheeled mobility devices
• Identify standardized assessments that are specific to use of wheeled mobility devices