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Training a Parent in Wheelchair Skills to Improve Her Child's Wheelchair Skills [electronic resource] : A Case Study / R. Lee Kirby, Cher Smith and Jessica L. Billard.

We tested the hypothesis that training a parent in wheelchair-user and caregiver wheelchair skills would improve the child's wheelchair skills. We studied an 11-year-old girl with spina bifida and her mother. The mother received 4 training sessions averaging 42.5 minutes per session, over a per...

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Main Authors: Kirby, R. Lee, Smith, Cher (Author), Billard, Jessica L. (Author), Irving, Jenny D. H. (Author), Pitts, Janice E. (Author), White, Rebecca S. (Author)
Corporate Author: Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2010.
Subjects:
Mothers.
Caregivers.
Congenital Impairments.
Training.
Parents.
Assistive Technology.
Parent Education.
Hypothesis Testing.
Skill Development.
Preadolescents.
Physical Disabilities.
Program Effectiveness.
Scores.
Simulation.
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Summary:We tested the hypothesis that training a parent in wheelchair-user and caregiver wheelchair skills would improve the child's wheelchair skills. We studied an 11-year-old girl with spina bifida and her mother. The mother received 4 training sessions averaging 42.5 minutes per session, over a period of 3 weeks. The total pre-training and, 4 weeks after completion of the parent-training sessions, post-training performance Wheelchair Skills Test (WST 4.1) scores for the child were 66% and 69%, for the mother as a simulated wheelchair user were 69% and 84% and for the mother as a caregiver were 93% and 100%. Both the mother and the child perceived the training to be beneficial. This case study suggests the potential for parent training to benefit their children's wheelchair skills abilities.
Item Description:Availability: RESNA. 1700 North Moore Street Suite 1540, Arlington, VA 22209. Tel: 703-524-6686; Fax: 703-524-6630; Web site: http://www.resna.org.
Abstractor: As Provided.
Physical Description:5 p.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:Text (Reports, Research)
Text (Speeches/Meeting Papers)
Preferred Citation of Described Materials Note:RESNA, Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) (Las Vegas, NV, Jun 26-30, 2010).

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