Wheelchair Seating and Positioning: Practical Applications

This hands-on, intensive, two-day workshop provides occupational therapists and physiotherapists with foundational seating and mobility assessment skills essential for working with clients across the lifespan and in any care setting. We explore the clinical process from assessment to setup of a new seating system and wheelchair, with real clients and vendor support.

The workshop follows the seating process from assessment through to completion of a wheelchair seating system for an actual client participant with vendor involvement.

After completion, attendees will understand the principles of seating and the roles of the client, therapist, and vendor/technician, be able to perform a complete seating assessment including the supine MAT assessment and sitting simulation, identify targeted outcomes of seating and product parameters for equipment trials, and follow-up on targeted outcomes to determine success of the seating intervention.