Wheelchair Skills Assessment And Training (rehabilitation Science In Practice Series)

Forlagets beskrivelse: This book provides a wide spectrum of readers with comprehensive but easily understandable protocols for the assessment and training of wheelchair skills. The Wheelchair Research Team at Dalhousie University and the Capital District Health Authority in Halifax (lead by the author) have focused on wheelchair safety and performance for three decades, as exemplified through the Wheelchair Skills Program. This is considered the top such program in the world. This new book is largely based on this program which has been accessed and utilized by over 75,000 people in 177 countries since 2007 1.13 Versions of the WSP -- 1.14 Individual skills -- 1.15 Skill levels -- 1.16 Skill groups -- 1.17 WSP forms -- 2 Introduction to the assessment of wheelchair skills -- 3 The Wheelchair Skills Test (WST) -- 3.1 Setting and equipment needed -- 3.2 Indications -- 3.3 Contraindications -- 3.4 General instructions to test subject -- 3.5 Feedback -- 3.6 Disclaimer re sensitivity and specificity -- 3.7 Number of attempts permitted -- 3.8 Use of aids -- 3.9 Scoring of individual skills on capacity -- 3.10 Comments -- 3.11 Training goals -- 3.12 Timing -- 3.13 Rests and breaks -- 3.14 Order of tests 5.20 Whole versus part practice -- 5.21 Simplification and progression -- 5.22 When the caregiver is the learner -- 6 Introduction to safety issues -- 6.1 General -- 6.2 What is a spotter? -- 6.3 Who can function as a spotter? -- 6.4 Equipment and supplies for the spotter -- 6.5 Obtaining the subject's permission to be spotted -- 6.6 Spotter warnings to subject -- 6.7 Ensuring safety during WSP activities -- 6.8 When the spotter should intervene -- 6.9 Extent of spotter intervention -- 6.10 Stopping a WSP session -- 6.11 Injury determinants -- 6.12 Common types of risks and how to prevent them Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Warnings, disclaimers, and conditions of use -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- List of abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1 Introduction to the Wheelchair Skills Program (WSP) -- 1.1 Scope -- 1.2 Subjects -- 1.3 Special considerations for caregivers -- 1.4 The circle of education -- 1.5 Cost-effectiveness of the WSP -- 1.6 Languages -- 1.7 Initial interview -- 1.8 Wheelchair and subject set-up -- 1.9 Getting out of the wheelchair to accomplish a task -- 1.10 Starting positions -- 1.11 Warnings to subject -- 1.12 WSP personnel 5.2 What is a "motor skill"? -- 5.3 The learning process -- 5.4 Assessment of wheelchair skills -- 5.5 Goal setting -- 5.6 Individualizing the training process -- 5.7 Structure of training -- 5.8 Training in pairs or groups -- 5.9 Motivation -- 5.10 Demonstration -- 5.11 Verbal instructions -- 5.12 Focus of attention -- 5.13 Imagery -- 5.14 Feedback -- 5.14.1 Types of feedback -- 5.14.2 Feedback content -- 5.14.3 Timing of feedback -- 5.15 Specificity of practice -- 5.16 Amount of practice -- 5.17 Facilitating retention -- 5.18 Variability of practice -- 5.19 Distribution of practice 3.15 Left- versus right-sided components of skills -- 3.16 Minimizing ways in which training can invalidate WST scores -- 3.17 Calculated scores -- 3.18 WST test report -- 4 The Wheelchair Skills Test Questionnaire (WST-Q) -- 4.1 Indications -- 4.2 Contraindications -- 4.3 Time limits -- 4.4 General template for WST-Q individual skill questions -- 4.5 Scoring algorithm for individual skill questions -- 4.6 Calculated scores -- 4.7 Options for how the WST-Q may be administered -- 4.8 WST-Q report form -- 5 Wheelchair skills training -- 5.1 General background on motor skills learning Content: 1. Introduction to the wheelchair skills program (WSP) -- 2. Introduction to the assessment of wheelchair skills -- 3. The wheelchair skills test (WST) -- 4. The wheelchair skills test questionnaire (WST-Q) -- 5. Wheelchair skills training -- 6. Introduction to safety issues -- 7. Individual skills -- 8. Games -- 9. Suggested reading.