Wheelchair Skills Course
Saturday October 15 9:00am - 4:00pm
Event Status: Planned
Tufts University $50 Students, Wheelchair-Users; $75 Therapists
Disability Served: Physical
Communities Served: Adult, Teen, Veterans, Youth
Contact:
Empower Spinal Cord Injury
Contact Name: Carrie Callahan
Phone: 3159251360
Wheelchair Skills Course for Wheelchair-Users, Therapists and Students
Getting left behind because you can’t get up that curb? Looking to take your ability to perform or teach wheelchair skills to the next level?
*Everything you want to know about getting around those daily obstacles in your manual wheelchair: stairs, curbs, grass, gravel, ramps
*Learn basics of wheelchair maintenance and adjustments
*Understand basic manual wheelchair configuration and how adjustments affect propulsion mechanics
Come to Tufts University for all of this and more! We will have an AM session (9AM-12PM) for beginner and intermediate level wheelchair-users and a PM session (1pm-4pm) for intermediate to advanced wheelchair-users. Sign up right away to secure your space in the desired time-slot before spaces fill up!
Empower Spinal Cord Injury is dedicated to creating happier, healthier and more meaningful lives in individuals with spinal cord injuries. Our residential program at Stony Brook University runs the last two full weeks in July. Our wheelchair skills courses not only teach you skills, but they also help to fund our two-week, fully volunteer-staffed program on Long Island!
Here is a quick sneak peak at what kind of skills the course reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daPM9k1pJPc
Register and find more details here: http://www.active.com/medford-ma/clinics/advanced-wheelchair-skills-course-tufts-2016
$50 Students, Wheelchair-Users; $75 Therapists
Date: October 15, 2016
Time: AM session 9-12PM, PM session 1-4PM
Location: Tufts University, Medford, MA